A Random Stranger Just Emailed Me About Free Money, and It Was LEGIT!

[Lemur]

Just when I thought I had seen everything, a random woman emails me, claims she has seen my name listed at a website that tracks lost money/stocks/bonds and I should check it out.

Well, I fire up every protection of Firefox that I have, and cautiously check the URL. It's legit. She's not a bot. She really did find lost money.

The website linked me to the Iowa State website for lost money, and found no fewer than five deposits that are mine. All created when I was a baby, all lost over time. They've just been sitting there. Now I just print out an Iowa form (provided) and reclaim my family's lost property.

Okay, this really freaked me out. Every scam artist in the world claims they can get you free money, so it's kind of reality-shattering when that happens for real.

I need to lie down. Maybe those Nigerian Princes were onto something?

Anyway, here's the site (http://missingmoney.com/). If your family has moved around a lot, or has complicated finances, you may find a little something listed. Amazing, really.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Oh yeah? Download Kaspersky or BitDefender and then tell me after a full scan... :tongue:

Speaking of missing money, I remember how my 10th grade AP history teacher had $20,000 of savings stolen from his bank account (quite a lot of savings for a young history teacher he was :dizzy2: - or perhaps part of the money was credit...). Where did the money go? It was the time of the 2008 elections, and it turned out some hacker donated his money to Hillary Clinton - and the teacher hated her guts even before that!! :laugh4::laugh4:

[Megas Methuselah]

I don't trust American goverment websites. They'll probably get my address and invade my home claiming I possess nuclear arms or something.

[CountArach]

The mind boggles :confused:

[seireikhaan]

And this is why we get first dibs in primaries. :2thumbsup:

[R'as al Ghul]

Dude...... :end:

[Crazed Rabbit]

I don't trust American goverment websites. They'll probably get my address and invade my home claiming I possess nuclear arms or something.

As long as they don't want info on your proximity to tar sands you should be good.

I interned with a big oil company recently. Now every month it seems I get mail about my retirement savings through them, and yearly (well, once at least) I get a big packet of financial info. The worst was an invitation to the Christmas Party - which said I needed a valid ID to get into. :embarassed:

CR

[Aemilius Paulus]

Lemur, I am so sorry for you, but I was right to be suspicious in the beginning. For one, respectable sites rarely spam you to use their functions. Some sites may spam you so you buy something, but very rarely to use one of their free features. And secondly, well, let's just get to the main message:

Now, look at this:
https://img691.imageshack.us/img691/1879/warning2.jpg
https://img199.imageshack.us/img199/8827/warning2.png (that Yahoo box is the one I use for registering for sites likely to spam me :devilish:)

(Sorry, but the current .Org forum setup does not allow me to insert such large pictures in the posts)

[Lemur]

AP, I don't mean to be dense, but the warnings you post are from consumercalculator.com, not the site I visited. Could you explain, please?

[Aemilius Paulus]

AP, I don't mean to be dense, but the warnings you post are from consumercalculator.com, not the site I visited. Could you explain, please?
Hmm, strange. I boomarked your site for further investigation, and when I clicked on the bookmarked today, that is where it took me - consumercalculator.org. :shrug:

And what does 'being dense' mean?

[Lemur]

Being dense = thick, slow, stupid, not-clever.

[Megas Methuselah]

Being dense = thick, slow, stupid, not-clever.

That's mean, man.

[Thermal]

If things weren't dense, solids wouldn't exist, we wouldn't exist! Besides, Lemur wasn't being dense :smiley:

[Lemur]

Seeing as I was applying "dense" to myself, and not to anyone else, I don't see how it was mean. Also, as AP made clear, it turns out he was looking at a different site. Not clear on how that happened, but there you go.

[Megas Methuselah]

Also, as AP made clear, it turns out he was looking at a different site. Not clear on how that happened, but there you go.

You're implying that AP is a creature of lesser intelligence.

[Lemur]

Not if you read what I wrote, rather than what you imagine I wrote.

[Megas Methuselah]

Not if you read what I wrote, rather than what you imagine I wrote.

I like to imagine you're a very hot man, but I also see you're a very hot man (judging from your pics in the photo album thread).

[InsaneApache]

I used to call first wife, 'my little neutron star', she didn't get it either! :book:

[Gregoshi]

I used to call first wife, 'my little neutron star', she didn't get it either! :book:
She didn're realize the gravity of such a remark.

[Megas Methuselah]

She didn're realize the gravity of such a remark.

:laugh4:

[The Stranger]

youre not telling me megas is a girl...

[bobbin]

AP, I don't mean to be dense

Seems pretty clear Lemur was implying he was dense.

The site seems to be legit and basically functions as a search engine for various states unclaimed money databases. Still i won't be changing my opinion of those nigerian princes anytime soon.

[edyzmedieval]

She didn're realize the gravity of such a remark.

I cannot believe this. :laugh4:
Gregoshi deserves a "Comedian of the Org award".

Congrats Lemur! Mind sharing the prize? ;)