Recover Unclaimed Money at MissingMoney.com
For what sounds like a scam if ever there was one, MissingMoney.com appears to be legitimate. The team over at Lifehacker have had a rush of successes listed in their comments after their first post of this service and having tried it myself, I was actually able to find an unclaimed rebate in my name!
I found a record with one of my old addresses and clicked the link they gave me. It led to Washington State's web-based unclaimed funds service.
I had to create an account with Washington state's unclaimed money department, but that was a simple process. There was a point where they ask for a SSN, but they give you the option of providing it offline (which I thought was a nice touch).
Afterward, they asked me to submit any kind of record that shows that I lived at that address (which I did) and it was a done deal. In theory, I should get my money in a while. I will update this page at that time. Of course, if you do this, make sure that you're not providing sensitive documents as proof (I think I sent a bill with account numbers blacked out or such).
Update 1 – I checked for just about everyone I know, but it seems they're not hooked into every state yet. I just forwarded my friends and family to their local state's unclaimed property page for now, but if missing money manages to complete this service, it will be very valuable to people who have moved a lot.
Update 2 – According to the state unclaimed property site, my family has almost 10 claims! A few are for over $50 too. This is fun! I wonder how soon missing money will be hooked into all the states?
Update 3 – Got my rebate. It's for just over $30. Pretty neat.
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Just want to say thank you for the earnest recommendation.
Earnest recommendations are always free for services that work well and don’t harm their own users.
After entering all the info the phone calls from NCO and other 3 collection agencies started, I’m getting dunning letters for somebody else with my same name, asking me to pay debts that I never incurred. This is a collection agency scam, some form of skip tracing. A few days ago I found this in google
http://www.debtorboards.com/index.php/topic,5796.0.html
My attorney is already on it, I’ll be suing this guys in federal court
Carl, that’s terrible! I checked their privacy policy and if they did provide your information to anyone without your consent, that’s a violation of their own terms of service.
Their site seems to work as far as finding states with money, though I never actually made an account with them since I didn’t have to to use the service.
Either way, the forum you sent me to has a guy complaining about sending a Driver’s License and a page of his credit report and then bad stuff happened.
The main point here is to never provide personal information to a third party (missingmoney.com for example) and always send sensitive stuff directly to the state itself.
I have submitted claims in VA and PA from info gathered from the site. Virginia has paid $990.00 on the claim. the claim in PA is currently pending. Not a scam. However, to be sure, send info only to government offices.
by the way, don’t believe the stuff from Carl. His Id was probably scammed long before,
I recommend the site to people, though I usually say that they should go to the unclaimed property sites of the states directly after finding out which state to check. I wouldn’t be comfortable recommending giving any data to missingmoney itself without first checking them out.