Hello Bruce,
I will never take a cashiers check again i would sooner take a check because if it ever happened again a personal check will catch them and i never sent the puppy or the papers i do the same and hold the papers until the check clears unless they pay by cash. i really advise you and your wife if you do take a cashiers check call to see if the bank has it in their record before you do anything with the check i did that on the second one and it turned out to be fraud too. i suggest that you take either cash or a personal check because if it happens to you then you may be able to do something.