Check Scams and how they work

I remember about a year ago a friend of mine showed me a check she had received in the mail. The check looked credible. Needless to say the check said it was in the amount for 600 dollars which said it was owed to her. After doing a search online we discovered it was a fake check. Easiest way to find out of a check is real or not is to do a search on the bank that the check is from to insure its a real account. Sometime scam artist will want to ask you for some of the money in which is a stolen account.