Yes, if they (and you) have ILS, NDB, anything; even on a visual approach, tune it and crosscheck..
Colleague mentioned flying an air taxi in to Lossiemouth.
Given a radar descent and released downwind for a visual circuit.
Looked right and there was the runway.
Called Tower downwind and finals - cleared to land - easy.
Landed, cleared - and noticed - lots of Nimrods! Oh buggah! he thought.
SO - continued back down taxiway, had a bloody good look around, and took off again with a right turn to continue downwind at the REAL Lossie.
Lossie knew what had happened, Kinloss knew what had happened, he knew what had happened and it was tacitly agreed that it would not be spoken of.
Were there any clues? Yes, of course there were! One r/w was 23 and the other 26 for a start but, as you've said already, he was suckered into seeing what he expected to see.