# Missingmoney.com - found me $336.00 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293 "2010-09-28T00:29:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/21 "2010-11-03T01:26:55Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Egad. > > **Typo Knig** just got a check for 860 dollars from our state. > > We have absolutely no idea where this originated. > > Rysdad, we owe you some chocolate!! My pleasure! I haven’t received MY money yet. Oh, well–they said it would take 2 - 3 months. Have a Toblerone on me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/22 "2010-11-03T02:31:26Z")
I read this thread title as [misogyny.com](http://misogyny.com). Sometimes it is good to be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/23 "2010-11-03T02:35:30Z")
**Mama Zappa** , what on earth was it for? Dividends? I can’t imagine a check so big for anything else! ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/24 "2010-11-03T02:38:24Z")
Woo hoo! I am soon to be $707 richer. Which, as it turns out, is the exact amount I need to hatch my plot to take over the world\*. Slee \*Things to do when I rule the world [ol] [li] Buy the Playboy mansion[/li][li] Orgies for _all_. Well, actually just me, my incredibly hot girlfriend and the Playboy Bunnies at the mansion[/li][li] Free Diet Dr Pepper for _all_. Or beer if that is your style[/li][li] Fox _finally_ becomes a hardcore porn channel. [/li][li] President Obama and Sarah Palin French kiss on the steps of the Capitol building to reduce bipartisan tensions[/li][li] Brain bleach for all after the above step is completed[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/25 "2010-11-03T07:21:15Z")
My wife is listed!!! Awright, none of this waiting around for snail mail nonsense. Tomorrow we’re gonna march right in to the Unclaimed Property office and demand the three shiniest dimes they have. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/26 "2010-11-03T08:47:06Z")
Wow, over $400, from a couple of decades ago! I’ll take it! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/27 "2010-11-03T10:29:09Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > **Mama Zappa** , what on earth was it for? Dividends? I can’t imagine a check so big for anything else! The form said something about insurance, but no other specifics. I was expecting a buck, at most $20. Who the heck owes me 800 clams without me knowing about it?? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/28 "2010-11-03T10:44:59Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > Missingmoney only catalogs 37 or so states, so be sure to look at the list on their site before thinking there’s nothing out there for you. > > Googling \*\*\ unclaimed \*\*should get your target state’s department of unclaimed property at the top of the list. Be careful with that. You may also get sites like [Arkansas Unclaimed Money Property ;& Funds](http://www.cashunclaimed.com/funds-property/arkansas-unclaimed-money.phtml) Yeah, I’m going to give you my credit card to get money you claim I have. ---
**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/29 "2010-11-03T11:06:40Z")
There is an amount of money that’s supposed to be in there for me from a certain company but it’s not. The same amount of money is supposedly owed by the same company to different people with my last name in a different city of my state. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/30 "2010-11-03T12:35:07Z")
They sent me straight to Louisiana’s site, and whaddya know? I don’t know the amount but I know what it was; my last check from a job when I moved out of state before they sent it and at the time I was so pissed at them I said “Fuck them!” and never thought about it until this morning. Over $100 is all I know now, but hell, I’ll take it. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/31 "2010-11-03T13:12:45Z")
Nothing for me, but my father’s name comes up a few times in that list. Last time I checked, there was something like $1500 in his name, sitting out there unclaimed. My father died about eight years ago, so theoretically I could try to claim it… but I’d need to track down the death certificate, prove that I’m his son, prove that I’m the heir… all very difficult, considering he wasn’t even a minuscule part of my life. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/32 "2010-11-03T14:52:16Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > The form said something about insurance, but no other specifics. I was expecting a buck, at most $20. Who the heck owes me 800 clams without me knowing about it?? 😕 Woooooo, **Typo Knig** is insured to the max! 😛 I found several hundred smackaroos of my dad’s a few years back from DECADES ago. Turns out as a recent immigrant he didn’t get the concept of a forwarding address, so his leasing company could never return his deposit. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/33 "2010-11-03T18:12:02Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I got a hit! Texas is on there and it shows me from the time I lived in Angleton. 😃 > > I have…$0.00 showing as being owed to me. > WTF? :eek: ☹ It’s very likely to be an actual amount, but the data entry clerk failed to fill in the amount. Worth doing. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/34 "2010-11-03T21:47:29Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > Nothing for me, but my father’s name comes up a few times in that list. Last time I checked, there was something like $1500 in his name, sitting out there unclaimed. My father died about eight years ago, so theoretically I could try to claim it… but I’d need to track down the death certificate, prove that I’m his son, prove that I’m the heir… all very difficult, considering he wasn’t even a minuscule part of my life. Yup, fortunately I was my father’s executor, so I had all that stuff. I bundled up the death certificate, a copy of the will AND a copy of some document I had at the time which attested that I was actually me, sent it off several weeks ago, and am still waiting. With a little luck, my legacy will cover postage and copying. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/35 "2010-11-03T22:03:14Z")
Nothing for me, my late husband, my late father, etc. Oh, well. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/36 "2010-11-03T22:15:26Z")
My name (with middle initial) comes up (with a blank address) as being owed money by “Wisconsin 4100.” Never heard of it, Googling has so far been a dead end. Anybody ever heard of it? (My full name with initial is fairly common, so I’m fairly certain this is for someone else.) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/37 "2010-11-04T00:53:11Z")
Found some leftover escrow from a mortgage that I refinanced with another lender three years ago. Thought I’d never see that money! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/38 "2010-11-04T01:34:25Z")
One of my sisters has three items in Texas; one of them has to do with her private practice. That could run into the thousands. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/39 "2010-11-04T04:49:58Z")
Didn’t go to that website but a few months back I used the equivalent site set up by the NY Comptroller’s office. I finally got the various checks last month and it added up to over $4800. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missingmoney-com-found-me-336-00/555293/40 "2010-11-04T07:40:50Z")
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