Nominate O.C. businesses for 2007 Arts Award

The annual award recognizes businesses that have built and fostered relationships with the arts community. Arts organizations, businesses or individuals may nominate a business for the award in four categories.

The categories are First Time, Return, Distinguished Achievement and Lifetime Achievement, which is given at the judges’ discretion and includes a hall-of-fame distinction.

An Arts Award will be given to an arts organization that partnered with a business that planned for funding and program excellence.

To receive a nomination packet contact Betty Moss at (714) 754-0866.

E-mail scam claims IRS is investigating recipientThe IRS warned computer users that there’s a new e-mail scam that could lead people to think they are under investigation by the IRS’s criminal investigation division.

The e-mail claims the recipient is under investigation for submitting a fraudulent tax return to the California Franchise Tax Board and tells the person to click on a link in the phony e-mail. But according to the IRS, the link and attachment are a Trojan Horse virus that could allow someone to remotely access the computer’s hard drive.

The IRS does not send out unsolicited e-mails and the agency warned people to not open the link or attachment if they receive a similar e-mail.

Computer users who receive an e-mail that claims to be from the IRS should forward the e-mail without clicking on links or attachments, to phishing@irs.gov.

The Orange County Business Committee for the Arts Inc. is accepting nominations for the 2007 Business in the Arts Awards, which will be given Nov. 18 at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel and Spa.