Let's talk about checks

[partial_reality]

Everyone knows to draw a line through to the end of the monetary line on a check. Why do we do it? Well, to prevent fraud, of course. Right? True, the payee could attempt to append something to the end of the spelled-out dollar amount, but this always struck me as difficult and unlikely. Most people write dollar amounts something like this

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[fooltheworld]

Hmm. I write very few checks these days but I'll try to remember to do that!