Super excited. I just got a check from the state of Florida with "unclaimed property". Cash money!
Here's how it happened...
I was watching Dateline or 20/20 or some show one day and they had a whole show dedicated to apparently all this unclaimed money that the government is holding for us. Dateline reporters were going to different people around the country that they had identified, with one man in Iowa I think receiving over 1 million bucks! So I thought, hey I'll check it out...and low and behold, after I went to the CFO of Florida's website, I searched my name and found almost $300 of what was listed as "unclaimed wages" from my former employer. They were listed under my maiden name with an address I haven't lived at in over 4 years.
My husband was really skeptical. He's had his identity stolen several times and thought this was another "scam". In the information you needed to send the state, I had to include a copy of a social security card showing that I was the same person with the same social (since it was in my old name). Call me naive, but I believed that a .org website from the state of Florida, the CFO at that, would keep my personal information private.
So I went ahead, sent the info, and low and behold...just maybe 3 weeks later, I got a check from the state of Florida with my "unclaimed wages"! Yes!!! My husband gave me the "you were right again" speech! Yes!!!
I'll let you know if suddenly my identity is stolen, but otherwise, I'm a fan!
The website is
www.fltreasurehunt.org for the state of Florida, but if you google your state and unclaimed property, it should direct you in the right direction.
Happy Treasure Hunting! :)
