A fake check received as payment for a vacation condo rental.
How do you know it is fake?
No, there are no obvious signs. Chances are our Bank would have accepted it

We knew it was fake because of the way the transaction was handled by the 'customer'.
And of course we called the Bank and the Company named on the check; neither of
which had any idea that this check was ever issued.

If you get paid by check and the amount is larger than what is owed... beware if they
are asking to get the overpay returned by wire transfer. There is basically a 100% chance that it is fraud.

And of the 4 players involved...

• The crook
• The delivery Service ( typically UPS or Fedex )
• The "issuing Bank"
• Law enforcement