What is check fraud?

Answer by  Gus4 (5)

Check fraud consists of a number of criminal acts such as forgery, deliberately writing bad checks, counterfeiting, and other ways to manipulate checks to victimize people.

Answer by  adawg (247)

Check fraud is when a check is written out by someone who does not have authority to do so or when a check is altered.

Answer by  Darkephoenix (1789)

Check fraud can be anything from intentionally writing bad checks, counterfeiting, forgery, writing checks on closed accounts, reordering checks purposely on closed accounts and a whole myriad of other things I can't recall at the moment.

Answer by  MarkWatrous (729)

A check, whether paper or electronic represents an implied trust that an equivalent amount of cash exists in a legitimate bank account. Whenever that trust is violated, this is called check fraud. Check fraud occurs because criminals alter the check including changing the payee and or the amount.