1. A method of assessing fraud in a document using a computer system, comprising: providing a document to the computer system, wherein the document comprises at least one information field; and for at least one of the information fields of the document, comparing handwriting in the information field to at least one handwriting profile representation from at least two information fields of at least one other document, wherein at least one handwriting profile representation has been stored in a computer system; assessing fraud in the document using at least one comparison, wherein evidence of fraud comprises a failure of at least a portion of the handwriting in at least one of the information fields of the document to approximately match at least one handwriting profile representation.
41. The method of claim 1 , wherein a first information field of the document is a legal or courtesy amount field, wherein a second information field of the document is a payee field, the method further comprising determining whether the amount in the first information field of the document matches at least one amount from a lexicon of one or more amounts associated with the payee.