> All you really want to know is "is this check good?" There's no way of knowing whether a cheque is good. The banks can always claw back the money from a frau

> All you really want to know is "is this check good?" There's no way of knowing whether a cheque is good. The banks can always claw back the money from a fraudulent cheque. There's some scams around that make use of the fact that people think a cleared cheque is a good cheque and that they money is now theirs. That's wrong, it isn't.