Thread: Hey! You might have lost some money! No, really!!

I may have just found an uncle's brother's $12000. Just need to check his middle name.

Aaron

Originally Posted by davros

Now, pretty funny. Mostly.
Years back, I had a private detective agency send me a note that they had found an amount of money believed to belong to me. For something like 20%, they’d gratefully help me get it back!
Be ****ed off that I’d lost track of some money, and also annoyed that someone wanted a cut to get it back, I found it myself. Older method back then but now it’s:

Find unclaimed money - Moneysmart.gov.au

For a laugh, I now try to find others money for them, and return it by connecting them to it. There’s also state government sites. Now, you’d think that’d be easy, and they’d be grateful, but have you ever tried to convince someone that you can find them hundreds or thousands of dollars that they “lost”? Sign of the times I’ve even had my email reported as “hacked” to my boss before the owner of some cash could be convinced it was money belonging to their business!
Try your name or your business! It’s fun!

Just found $28 from 10 plus years ago!

Someone with my first and last, but different middle name is owed $2.11 by AMP 🤣

Tony

There was a show on TV here a while ago called Heir Hunters. They were businesses that did just this. We’re looking for bigger amounts that they could track down people to help them collect. For a fee of course.

Their were some interesting stories among them which made the show although it was also played on the tension of racing other similar firms to the heirs

The sad part is finding a sum so small it’ll cost more in time and effort to claim it!

For a tale of gross mismanagement, type “Aboriginal” into the search. The amount of money put into failed and mismanaged organisations, then lost, is truly staggering.
Well. Maybe not staggering on the world stage. But to some small community- there’s some large sums!

None for me but found some relatives i've never heard of.

I think I used to get money every week when I was working. I'd need to ask the Mrs....