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(4) The numerical remainder is the check digit. If the remainder is 10 the letter X shall be used to designate the check digit. The correct numeric remainder, zero through nine (0-9) or the letter X, shall appear in VIN position nine (9). VIN positions.
Check the 9th digit of the original VIN. If this is the same as the remainder you wrote down, the VIN is real. Otherwise, the VIN is probably fake. The VIN is definitely fake in this case if the car it belongs to was made in North America after 1980. Note that, if the remainder is 10, the matching 9th digit of a real VIN will be X, since the manufacturer can't use a two digit number (10) as a checking number. In our example above, the fifth digit of the original VIN is 2 but our remainder is 5.