Cat was nominated for a Willie! And new mail scam to watch out for.

Thought you should know...

For her role in Cabaret last year. The award ceremony is later this month -- let me know if you'd like me to try to get you tickets.

I got a scam letter today. Snail mail (how strange!). The letter said I'd won $68,000 and there was a cashier's check for $2450 I was supposed to deposit that was to cover "accounting, tax processing and clearance fees". If it looks too good to be true, it probably is!

I found an OCC alert about this series of scams on the US Treasury website, so I'm going to mail copies of the letter and check to the US Post Office to report these folks for mail fraud.

These crooks get unsuspecting folks to deposit the check, wait 48 hours, then call them for more instructions. The next step is that money is then wired to the fraudsters, supposedly to pay the fees for the full amount that will then -- (ha!) -- be transferred into the mark's account. It actually takes a week to ten days for the original cashier's check to be identified as a counterfeit, and then the person who got scammed is left holding the bag and has to pay back their bank.

Watch out for this one. It looks pretty darn real - I can see how people get sucked in! I was already planning how to spend the money if it turned out to be legitimate. Sigh.