A few months back, sister-in-law Karen told Gary that my name showed up on a site she knew of, www.showmemoney.com. It’s for Missourians (“showme,” get it?) who have unclaimed property waiting for them. All you need initially is the name, but then the real person must get in there and sign up and wait and fill out forms and then months later … a check comes!
Yeah! A check for $156.47. I am quite pleased. But of course there must be a catch.
Gary says, “Yeah, someone just paid us #156.47 to steal our identity.”
That is not the catch. I thought the check would come with an explanation. No. Just the check. The State Treasurer givesno explanation other than “ABANDONED FUND.”
I thought at first, “okay, I might have abandoned a fund,” but then I went through every fund I’ve ever had: two funds. The Passbook account I had at Florissant Bank when I was 11, which I moved entirely to the Teacher’s Credit Union, which morphed into my current credit union. All funds accounted for.
Then I thought it might have been one of Mom’s funds, but no, she was very detailed about her monies and what went where.
Then I thought, “I bet it’s a fund for children WHO WERE ABANDONED” but then it would be a lot more money.
So, I’m very glad for the check, but now there’s another mystery. I hope the D.B. Cooper case is solved, that will balance out the unknowns.
6 responses to “Aha! I Knew There was a Catch to This!”
Uncashed dividend checks, unredeemed interest, uncashed refund checks, could be anything. It’s all money businesses sent you but you never got or collected for whatever reason. They’re not allowed to keep it.
New York does tell you where it came from. I guess Mo. doesn’t?
Jay was very casual about opening mail, let alone cashing/depositing checks. After we married, I was horrified to find years-old now-dead checks in unopened envelopes in boxes in the basement. We collected well over $8,000 in unclaimed funds from Texas, Pennsylvania, and New York. Mostly uncashed dividend checks.
i did that once, and then i put in the names of everyone i could think of and found money for a colleague and my boss’s mother. it was kind of fun.
I got $500+ in unclaimed funds. It was for a Globe life insurance policy my parents had on me as a child.
My stepmother’s was due to a cable deposit back in the 80s.
~~Silk – That makes sense. That amount sounded familiar, I think I must have missed an early electric company dividend after Mom died.Magpie – I checked out the NM one for Dave, and emailed him what I’d found and the web address and he called me and asked what he should do next. His said something about “Stale account.” Zayrina – Gary’s parents told him abouthis baby insurance when he turned 30. Funny, I was just explaining baby insurance to a young bank teller the other day.Caroline – Hmpf! They told HER what it was from.