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Is This Your
Money?
Dear S&A Reader,
We have reason to believe there may be "unclaimed" money in your name.
We're talking about money that is legally yours, but for some reason is not yet in your possession.
You see, a few weeks ago, we began a research project working with several State unclaimed-money offices, banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions. We compared a random sample of our subscribership with public lists from these institutions.
In short, we found that many of our subscribers may have unclaimed cash in their names.
For example...
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DailyWealth subscriber, Fred Salinger.* Our research indicates there's more than $4,611.75 in unclaimed stock and dividend proceeds in this name. It is very easy for him to collect. |
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True Wealth subscriber, Donald Morse.* There's $1,532.54 in unclaimed cash in this name. The money is sitting in an escrow account. |
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12% Letter subscriber, Ruby Goldberg.* We have reason to believe she's owed $9,274.24. |
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S&A Oil Report subscriber Brian Northford.* Our database shows there's $3,304.81 in this name from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. |
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S&A Short Report Subscriber Hank Miller.* There's a check made out to this name for $2,114 from the Allegheny Police Department. Is this an undelivered paycheck? |
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And this is just the tip of the iceberg. In all, our research project identified what may be hundreds of current readers who we believe may have unclaimed money in their name. (Read below to see if you might have unclaimed money waiting for you...) |
* We take our subscribers' privacy rights seriously. The names have been changed to protect their identities.
You see... most adults have over a 50% chance that they are owed something, according to a Denver Post survey. So, we've spent the past few weeks cross-referencing unclaimed property accounts in all 50 States with the names in our subscriber files.
After this exhaustive process, we estimate that more than 50,000 S&A subscribers could have unclaimed money they know nothing about.
And since just about everyone is looking for ways to get extra cash right now, we've put together this FREE Special Report to help you find it.
In the following pages, we list the names of dozens of people with unclaimed cash... how much they're owed... and most importantly, how to claim this money now.
So, how do you know if you have unclaimed money...?
Well, if you can answer "yes" to any of the following questions, there's a good chance there's unclaimed cash in your name.
1. Have you had a relative pass away?
Did a loved one pass away without leaving accurate records? Did some of their assets go "undetected?" Did they forget to list a savings or checking account in their will?
You'll never know unless you check.
83-year-old Arlene G., for example, received an insurance check for $525,327 after her late husband didn't account for it in his will. "I had no idea the money was there," she told a local paper.
Arnold J. in Louisiana found out that his father, who died in 1987, had a credit union account worth $17,421.61 that went unaccounted for.
A Montgomery County, Maryland man recently received $355,000 in stock – money that had gone undetected among his late father's assets.
URGENT: D. Larson, last known to live in Toledo, Ohio is owed $252, 806.73. Mr. Larson, if you're out there, please claim your money.
2. Have you ever owned a dividend-paying stock?
Have you received every dividend check owed to you? Did your financial institution mail your dividend checks to the wrong address? Were you given shares of stock as a kid, only to forget about them?
All these scenarios are common.
Theresa S. from Denver, for example, recently found she had $21,177 in uncollected stock dividends, sitting in the State's unclaimed property office (financial institutions usually turn over unclaimed property to state and federal government, until the rightful recipient claims them).
Jason P. from Baton Rouge recently learned that the state office had $750,000 in stocks and dividends waiting for him, from an investment account he lost track of years ago.
And relatives of an elderly Maryland woman recently discovered she had un-cashed dividend checks worth more than $200,000.
URGENT: The Texas Unclaimed Property office is currently looking for J. Jordan, of Dallas. He has $240,577.66 waiting for him in his name. Mr. Jordan, are you reading this?
3. Have you ever changed your address?
Did you move and forget to give a forwarding address to a financial institution? Does a former employer have an un-cashed check waiting for you?
This is another common way folks leave behind large sums of cash...
Claire W. from Northwest Baltimore recently learned that she had $40,000 in stock listed with the state under a name and address she hadn't used in years.
Samuel S. of Longmont, CO found he had a $220 paycheck coming from an employer he worked for in the 1990s. "It's extra money I need," he said.
URGENT: E. Haskins, last known to live in Bowling Green, Ohio has a $42,463.12 check waiting for him at the State's unclaimed property office. Mr. Haskins, if you're reading this – the state of Ohio wants you to claim this check.
4. Have you taken part in company stock or pension plans?
Did you switch jobs and forget to transfer or recover your pension or 401(k)? Did you own shares in company stock, only to forget about them after you left?
Gary M. of Wisconsin bought $100 worth of GE's stock through an employee stock program in the early 1980s. Eventually, he switched jobs and forgot about the money. Today it's worth $2,500. "It's a blessing," Gary told a local paper. "It's been able to keep me one step ahead."
Ralph S. from Ohio discovered he owned $3,366 worth of stock in a company he worked for in the 1970s. "I had no idea it was out there," he told the press.
And there's a ton of money in forgotten pensions too...
"Pensions may be going the way of the dinosaur, but there's still plenty of cash left from people who forgot to claim them. There's about $133 million in unclaimed pension funds," says Gary Pastorius of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
URGENT: T. Janowitz, last known address in Kirkland, WA is owed $37,191.31. Mr. Janowitz, there's a lot of money waiting for you.
5. Have you ever held a bank account?
What ever happened to your old childhood bank account? Did you switch banks and forget to close an account? Are there inactive bank accounts somewhere in your name?
It's easy to lose track of bank accounts, especially when they're small. The good thing is that they can grow big over time, with the magic of interest.
Kayla G. of Hollywood, FL stands to reclaim more than $5,000 from a bank account she left behind years ago.
Harry R. from Utah recently discovered $12,000 in a forgotten account from a family company.
URGENT: The State of Nevada is looking for a man with a bank account that's grown to more than $2.7 million. Is this you?
More places your unclaimed cash may be hiding. . .
Have you ever held savings bonds? Right now, there are more than $15 billion worth of savings bonds that have stopped earning interest but have yet to be claimed, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. Do any belong to you?
Filed a tax return? The IRS was recently looking for nearly 97,000 people who were owed more than $80 million in tax refunds. That's an average of more than $820 per person! Are you on the list?
Held a stock certificate? A Tulsa, OK woman received stock and cash worth more than $940,000. She thought inherited stock certificates from her father had been destroyed. Are there lost stocks in your name?
Received a personal check? Michael B. of Orlando recently discovered an un-cashed check for $400, just sitting in Florida's Bureau of Unclaimed Property. Are there any lost checks made out to you?
Does your family have old property claims? A Washington, DC man learned he had $186,000 for him from an old "right-of-way" property claim dating back to the 1800s! Do similar claims for you exist?
A few more possibilities...
Abandoned property
Lost social security payments
Contents of safe deposit boxes
Long-lost relatives' estates
Lost refunds
Unclaimed inheritances
Oil and gas royalty payments
Unreturned security deposits
Child support payments
Utility and phone companies
Individual retirement accounts
Personal savings
Un-cashed money orders
Unused gift certificates
Life insurance policies |
If you answered, "yes" to ANY of these questions... chances are good there's unclaimed cash in your name...
Here's what to do now.
How to claim your cash
Before I go any further, let me explain who I am, and why I've sent you this report.
My name is Brian Hunt.
I'm the Research Director at Stansberry & Associates Investment Research. My job consists of tracking down and researching just about every investment opportunity under the sun...
But I read something recently (that has nothing to do with investing) that I simply could not ignore...
| Did you know that U.S. state and federal governments are currently holding more than $32 BILLION in unclaimed money and other assets? |
$32 BILLION.
So, I began to wonder... who do they owe all that money to... do any of our readers have unclaimed cash they don't know about... and how can these folks claim what's rightfully theirs?
| For example, did you know that in Florida, there's more than $1 BILLION dollars in unclaimed money? In fact, government officials recently compiled a list of more than 8 million people who are owed money there. In other words, if you live in Florida, chances are good that you or someone you know is going to have some money. |
| Or, did you know that the Georgia Department of Revenue currently holds more than $684 million in unclaimed property, yet only $12 million of it was claimed last year? Again, if you live here, chances are good there's money owed to you. |
Armed with this information, we took on a research project to see who might have unclaimed cash in our reader files. As it stands, we estimate thousands of S&A subscribers – in all 50 states – may have unclaimed money.
Remarkable, right?
Next, to help our readers take advantage of the situation; we put together a comprehensive research guide on how to find and collect unclaimed cash. It's called: How to Find Unclaimed Money in Your Name.
How can this report help you?
This report details the two most comprehensive online databases that will show you any money you're owed.
| The first is a free, State-endorsed national database. It's a collection of State governments working together to reunite owners with their unclaimed property. This database is user-friendly, simple to navigate, and free to use. The search box is at the top of the page. One box for your first name. One box for your last. It takes less than 10 seconds. You can try other family members' names as well. |
| The second database was opened to the public in 1995. Today, it catalogs over 30 million unclaimed accounts and continues to add new ones every day. Its records go back as far as the early 1900's, so you can even search the names of your deceased relatives. This database is also user-friendly and easy to use. |
Most importantly, each database will provide you with all of the detailed account information needed to contact the financial institution holding your money. So you'll know how, when, and where to get your money.
It couldn't be any easier.
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We used these resources ourselves to find folks on S&A's staff with unclaimed money. Porter Stansberry and Matt Badiali, for example, both had unclaimed shares of stock given to them when they were young. Blue Cross Blue Shield apparently owed Steve Sjuggerud handfuls of money too. |
Of course, if you prefer to contact the institutions holding your money, rather than using a database, we'll show you how to do that too. Our report provides the contact information for the unclaimed property offices in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands – and Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta.
So, is it worth a few extra seconds to find out if there's cash out there, for you?
We think so...
Everything you need to know is laid out simply and clearly in our new Special Report, How to Find Unclaimed Money in Your Name.
The best part is, I'd like to send this report to you absolutely FREE of charge.
Let me explain what I mean...
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Amazing, right?
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And Cantwell's not the only one...
| 5% multiplied into 43% – 74-year-old AT&T shareholder David Schaffer is another example. While most shareholders earn the company's "usual" 5% dividend, Schaffer multiplied his to an unbelievable 43%! That's nearly 8-times bigger than normal. So far he's profited more than $84,000! |
| 5.5% multiplied into 32% – Or how about 42-year-old DaimlerChrysler shareholder, Annette Riordan. Regular Chrysler shareholders get less than a 5.5% dividend. Riordan however, was able to multiply hers to an incredible 32%. That's nearly 6-times bigger than normal. So far, she's profited more than $14,000 in just a few short years. Incredible, isn't it? |
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Brian Hunt,
Research Director, Stansberry & Associates Investment Research
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