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===Faking a transporter accident===
A transporter accident could be faked in such a way that a transporter chief would think a person died during transport. For example, this could be done by adjusting the carrier wave of a second transporter to the carrier wave of the first. The person would then beam off the first transporter while the second transporter beamed in a small amount of genetically identical material.

Only a doctor could determine if this material was really the person in question. The transporter trace could be used to compare the logged DNA pattern "trace" to the "dead" person.  Single-bit errors might be detected if the "dead" material was replicator|replicated.

Only transporters that operate on the same subspace frequency as the spoofed transporter can be used for this type of ruse.  For example, some Romulan transporters were capable of this.

Another indicator of such a ruse would be a temporary increase of the matter to energy ratio while transport was in progress.  However, this increase could fall with in the nominal operational parameters of the transporter in question.  Investigation of the transporter logs would be necessary to find evidence of a second transporter signal. (TNG|Data's Day)