Jokes1 min ago
e-mailing a cheque.
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If I e-mail or fax a cheque after scanning it in, can the recipient print it off and cash it or deposit it in their bank?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Theoretically a cheque is simply an instruction from you to your bank to pay payee a certain sum of money. As such a bank could take that instruction in any form and not just the pre-printed cheques that are issued to you. In practice you may have a hard time convincing a bank to accept anything other than the real thing "in the flesh".
Like rekstout says it is theoretically possible to accept the fax/email as an instruction. However even if you could persude them to accept the fax/email, to avoid fraud the bank would want to see your original (i.e. not copied) signature on it. In which case you might as well just send a cheque anyway.