To be extra careful, you can also draw a line through any excess space in the small box with your payment amount.
After you wrote out the amount of your payment (using words instead of numbers), you drew a line through any excess space. You can use the same technique after you write your payment amount in numeric form.
This picture shows how a creative person can turn your decimal point into a comma and add an extra zero to your payment amount. Drawing a line through any excess space helps prevent this, as does writing the amount out in letters.
Another trick is to use ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. Caps are harder to alter. For a review of some techniques you can use, see How to Write a Check Safely
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