You must be kidding me? Okay ... so this was in 2009. Did you learn your lesson the hard way that year? I'll bet that at the very least you got charged by your bank for a bad check. I hope you didn't actually try to get the cash. Did you? This is the most obvious scam and it has been going on for decades; so there is nothing new here. Do you really think that an address, company name, telephone number or whatever reallly means it's a good check? I'll bet the check even had security features that passed the test. Do you think some benevolent force of the universe (the Prize Fairy?) was just going to come along and drop 248,000 dollars in your lap for absolutely no reason? Of course not. So please, for your own good, stay away from the mailbox ... let someone else pick your mail up for you ... let them pay our bills ... etc... Next, please visit your doctor and get a checkup ... you might have dementia.