Can sites like unclaimed money be trusted?
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Comments on Can sites like unclaimed money be trusted?
It is likely a scam, don’t fall for it.
If it ask for your personal information whenever you try to claim it, it’s a mostly will be scam.
Unclaimed money is required to be turned over to the state or held in trust with notification to the state. Each state has an unclaimed money website.
The unclaimed money websites not operated by the state are “real” (as in the money is there) but it’s a scam because they charge you to get the money when there is no need to pay.
If you go through the state’s process there is no charge to you to get the unclaimed money back.
Want to test it, enter a fake name and see if that name shows up as well. If it shows that ‘Mary Poppins’ has unclaimed money, then you ,now the site is fake.
Here are links to state websites where you can check for free
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Law/Property/Unclaimed_Property_and_Escheat/Government_Agencies/U_S__States/
My son went to one site that the state of Texas maintained and he found his name, it was for a paycheck he had forgotten about. You have to give a lot of information out to claim your money. I wouldn’t try it unless it is a government site.