Want $21.95 from Microsoft?

erco

The wife came across this "Unclaimed Property Division" website. Not sure if it's for people in California or corporations in CA. Anyway, type in your name and see if anybody in the Golden State owes you money. I just got a check for $21.95 through the state, from a Windows class action suit. Easy money!

https://ucpi.sco.ca.gov/ucp/Default.aspx



Next, I have a line on a few million dollars of inheritance due me from a mysterious relative in Africa. I just have to send them all my bank account numbers. Lucky me!

mindrobots

Typically they are for residents of the state. I believe there is a statute of limitations on how long the state keeps the fund before they absorb them. You may want to check states you've been a resident to see if anybody owes you (or your family) anything. All the states have to have these websites for unclaimed funds/property.

It's funny, law firms will scour these sites and then send letters to unsuspecting people telling them they have unclaimed funds (which they do) and the law firm can help guide them through the process for a small recovery fee (which they will). I recevied a letter from a law firm once saying I had unclaimed funds (which I did), so I went to the state website, followed the process and received my funds in a few weeks. I guess I forgot to include the law firm so they could claim their recovery fee. Dang! I'm a bad person!

WBA Consulting

Interesting, nothing for me, but plugged in a few close relatives and one popped up with a $37 item.

KeithE

I typed in a friend's name and ~$400 came up - no joke!

erco

KeithE wrote: »

I typed in a friend's name and ~$400 came up - no joke!

That little secret makes you his new best friend... and vice versa!

KeithE

I talked to him, and he had received a letter in the mail about this a while back. But he thought it was a hoax, and tossed it. Funny thing is that he bought lunch today, and if we hadn't gotten together I probably wouldn't have thought to type in his name. I figured that since he was a windows developer for a while it was likely that he would get the ~$22 Microsoft payment. But this one had to do with insurance.

Jeff Haas

Thanks, Erco! I've got $200 coming to me, and more to my wife and my mom.

But my mom is in last place for this so far...$2.64 from one of her banks.

Can anyone get less?!

Hal Albach

erco wrote: »

The wife came across this "Unclaimed Property Division" website. Not sure if it's for people in California or corporations in CA. Anyway, type in your name and see if anybody in the Golden State owes you money. I just got a check for $21.95 through the state, from a Windows class action suit. Easy money!

https://ucpi.sco.ca.gov/ucp/Default.aspx



Next, I have a line on a few million dollars of inheritance due me from a mysterious relative in Africa. I just have to send them all my bank account numbers. Lucky me!

Don't forget your SS #, every PIN code you are currently using and a blank, signed check. Helps to expedite account cleansing. (Sarc)

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

In Washington State the website is http://ucp.dor.wa.gov/ . Nothing there for meeee...

-Phil

KeithE

I just looked up another friend on a whim, and he may be owed $700, plus a separate "unspecified property" that has has under the end of the month to claim. If I see him at the Irish Fleadh in Mountain View I think he's buying beers ;-)

Edited to add: And another who had moved out of state $50.

erco

Jeff Haas wrote: »

Thanks, Erco! I've got $200 coming to me, and more to my wife and my mom.

But my mom is in last place for this so far...$2.64 from one of her banks.

Can anyone get less?!

$0.02 from an online bank I used to use. Oh, the beauty of compounded interest!

WBA Consulting

I can beat that. My step mom has 1,103 shares of an oil company's stock that was in her mom's name first. The stock value is $0.001 per share, so she has a whopping $1.10 waiting for her.

Jonathan

I had $137! Thanks Erco! Now what to spend it on, Parallax stuff, ham radio stuff, astronomy stuff...

Cuz I ain't paying bills with it! It is illegal to spend windfall money on bills. And I never break the law. :-)

Jonathan

mindrobots

You could donate 1/2 to the twins college fund!!

erco

mindrobots wrote: »

You could donate 1/2 to the twins college fund!!

Woot!

Duane Degn

Jonathan wrote: »

It is illegal to spend windfall money on bills.

Thanks for the warning.

I need to figure out what to do with the $149.79.

No, I'm not joking.

Thanks erco!

erco

I was fat, dumb & happy with my $22 until I read that all you are all getting a lot more money than me.

localroger

Wow, it says I own the entire state of Rhode Island. I'd buy a megayacht but I don't think that makes me rich enough.

erco

localroger wrote: »

Wow, it says I own the entire state of Rhode Island

Take him to Detroit!

wmosscrop

In Oklahoma they publish a list every so often and include it with the major newspapers. I think it's a major waste of money to do so, since it's statewide rather than local.

To be fair, my wife did get ~100 back in an insurance premium refund.

And now Oklahoma is #1 in earthquakes... at least I'm getting better at fixing sheetrock cracks

Walter

erco

wmosscrop wrote: »

And now Oklahoma is #1 in earthquakes... at least I'm getting better at fixing sheetrock cracks

Did not know that about Oklahoma. At one time my house (near Los Angeles) had a thin but long crack in the stucco (the addition had settled differently, I guess) but it disappeared after a minor tembler. So my house is one of the few "fixed" by an earthquake.