Fraud Prevention Tips when Writing Checks

As check fraud continues to grow, it is more important now than ever to be diligent and take every precaution possible. If you are writing personal checks, a precaution to consider taking, is using gel ink pens. When writing checks using a gel pen, with blue or black, non-washable ink, the gel soaks into the paper and is more difficult to remove than a ballpoint-pen. While this makes it more difficult to wash the checks, there is no single tool that can stop check fraud.