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No bank sends free money to anyone, period. Only a boiler room scammer would pretend to be a Bank and send people fake checks. That check will bounce, and the one who cashed it will get into trouble.

"The one who tried to cash it" Scammers send fake checks to people claiming they can get money for free. Which bank sends money for free? Bank of Nigeria?

A shill posting on a Sunday? I guess there is no rest for the wicked!!

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These checks are legitimate checks, but their source may be mistaken or mis-entered. I had no issues with the check I received. I received a payment from my client for $10,000 with one of these checks. These are 'online banking' checks that are sent out when users use Online Bill Pay.

Before cashing, make sure that it is Payed To the Order Of your current information. If it is not, do not cash it yet. The payer has an option to specify an 'Account' across the top of the check with an Account number or Invoice number. Verify this against your records, if any.

Before you decide this is a scam and destroy the check, you should reach out to the sender in the upper left hand corner of the check. It may be a case of mistaken payment (unlikely if the Pay To matches you).

Again, it is your responsibility to verify the source if you don't know where it's from. The source of these payments are from real bank accounts, so bounced checks likely mean the source account has insufficient funds.

David,  While there are many Scammers out there,  This is Not a Scam.   Don't be stupid,  Scammers want you to Send Checks,  they don't send you Legitimate Checks.  Good Grief,  Just Deposit Check,  and your Bank will let you know in a week if its a bad check.

1 of my Customers used a pay service to pay my Co. for Machine Repair Parts I had invoiced him.  Check from Payment Processing Center, Hickory, NC  had my Customer's info Printed right on the Check,  and was for the Correct Invoice Amount to the penny.  I believe this is a Payment service where money is emailed close to final mail address,  then printed & mailed locally.

This is a total scam.  Do not cash a check you receive from them.

I received a check in the amount of $260.14 today.  A way to get the bank name of who issued the check is to put the routing number (the first group of  numbers in the bottom left hand corner of the check in the search on your computer.  I did this with my check from my personal account and my bank name came up.  When I entered the number on this check, nothing came up.  THIS IS A SCAM.   The issuer of the check is Mark Wiens Photography.  If you receive a check like this do not cash it or deposit in your account.  You will lose the money.

It is a scam - do not deposit the check - your bank will end up taking the funds out of your account.

I received a check from God knows where.  It said payment fro $650.00 to my married name of 6 months.  I plan on calling them and then letting the authorities know who these people are and what they are trying to do.

People, if you gte one of these checks you do know that your bank can tell you if it real or not right away don't you?? All you have to do is ask them and they will verify it for you before you cash it or deposit it. They can do that for you. It is called technology.
If it is legit then hae a ball. If it is not they will tell you..

you are correct this will tell you as I just did it and my bank name comes up with my routing number and I put in the routing number to the check that I recived today for 2990.00, comes up empty, good Idea never thought of that.. Co what this person suggests as they are right.. Legit, I think not..

BEWARE PEOPLE!! It's a scam!!!!!! Just think about it.... who is going to send you a check for NO REASON? COME ON!!! DON'T DEPOSIT THE CHECK JUST RIP IT OFF AND TROW IT IN THE GARBAGE.  I got that check today: On the top in fine print says: "PLEASE DEPOSIT THIS PAYMENT FOR OUR MUTUAL CUSTOMER" I Googled the name of the supposed payee and it's all a scam. Mine looks like a child support payment from a fake "Dunning Family Trust". I happen to have a relative who works at a bank and she immediately told me that it's a scam.
Avoid yourself some trouble by being smart and getting rid of this check... IT'S A SCAM!

I came home from the cottage and found a empty envelope with this return address on the table in the dinning room where my wife had been reading the mail while I was gone..  I had no idea where or why it would be there and she didn't remember anything about it..

So ended up on here checking out what it might of been..  And then I saw the light...  Our daughter had sent her mother money for her birthday using this online way of sending money..  Been just about a month now and the bank has not taken the money back,,

So YES sometimes this is a real check from real people...  If you have one that you don't want just sign it and mail it to me..  Thanks

Look, the address belongs to a legitimate service most people know as CheckFree (though they just changed their official name to Fiserv).  People tell their bank to send you a check, and that's how the checks come through.  Their checks ARE good.

Now, of course, any moron can make up a phony check on his laser printer and put the same "official" address on it.  That's not the fault of the company that really owns that address.  So all these folks who are posting that all checks with that address on them are scams are ignorant.

Every one of these checks has the PAYOR'S NAME in the upper left.  Read it, and figure out why the guy owed you money, and it will probably make sense.  If it's for $10,000, and it's from Princess Washtub from Nigeria, THAT'S when you figure out you probably don't want to deposit it.  It has NOTHING to do with the Hickory, NC address.

Same deal here as described above. I was going to throw out what looked like a scam check- no explanatory note in the envelope or anything. I'm so glad I read through this thread first. THIS is what checks from Fidelity 529 accounts look like. I didn't know because I'd never pulled money from the 529 acct before. But once I saw someone mention it, and looked at the oddly specific amount again, it matched up. I am going to hassle Fidelity customer service however- three ought to be some kind of note on the check indication it's from them. Their normal statements come in very distinctive envelopes, not some sketchy-looking third parry like this...

Pretty sure this is a scam.  I got a check for $204.98 for a payment to mutual customers with my name on but an address in Dublin, OH where I don't live or close to it.  Plus the one side of the check isn't cut right and is on regular printer paper.  I'm going to take it to my bank and have them check it out.

I don't know about those above that say it is a scam, but I received a check for $5,000.00 from Payment Processing Center in Hickory, NC.  I sent this check to myself.  Because one of my bank accounts has my maiden name on the account and my recently opened account with a different bank has my married name on the account, I'm unable to do a bank to bank transfer from/to my accounts.  So I sent myself a check using the first bank's 'Bill Pay' tool.  After I received the check at home, I mailed it to the account with my married name to complete the transfer.  Based on the entries above, it appears Payment Proceesing Center is a commonly used service by banks to send payments.

This is a very archaic system compared to the rest of the world where anyone can go online and transfer funds directly from their account to another individual's or company's account if they have the receivers sort code (similar to US bank's routing number) and their account number.  I wish the US banking system would come into the 21st century when it comes to online banking.

It might be worth those of us that have received check we sent to ourselves, to contact our banks and give feedback regarding the Payment Processing Center's process.  Instead of just a check in the envelope, it would be helpful if a remittance advise is included to give those who received the check sent by someone else a clue to the source.  I plan to.

My check is even stranger! The check I received is from me to my wireless provider but with my address. It has my wireless account # the exact amount due and the date it's due. My wife says she just used B of A's online bill pay so she's contacting them and the wireless company in the morning.

Which bank? Bank of America or a Credit Union?

Exactly the same as what I just got, check payable to wireless provider but to my address.  It's a joint account with my daughter.  I have to find out if she made a recent payment to the wireless provider.  It is highly unlikely she entered our home address instead of the provider's address since payee addresses were setup last year and payments have been made without incident.  This surely appears to be another twist of the same scam.