 But Quinn says checks will probably stick around for a while because they're especially handy for large payments, things like the down payment for a car or a house. It's going to be a long time before Venmo is going to be covering tens of thousands of dollars. A, by the way, do you even remember the last check you wrote? Yep, 15 years ago to a cleaning lady. She left it on the seat of her car in plain view. Her daughter wrote down my account number, started draining it, and she was caught. It was revealed she was part of a larger check fraud operation. What?