The ancient Romans invented the concept of the check. They used praescriptiones to pay instead of gold. But we don’t really know what these “checks” looked like.
You don’t have the technical skills to hack into electronic payment systems. You don’t have contacts at a big company who can deliver you a database of credit card numbers.
Leonardo DiCaprio played infamous fraudster Frank Abagnale in the Steven Spielberg movie, Catch Me If You Can. Abagnale was notorious for check forgery. But he also loved to impersonate other people.…