Comments on: Investing Scams http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2005/03/24/investing-scams/ A premiere personal finance blog, established 2003. Within, Flexo discusses his own experiences with money, and he and other authors comment on a wide range of personal finance topics. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:42:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Dean B http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2005/03/24/investing-scams/#comment-291 Dean B Fri, 25 Mar 2005 05:03:50 +0000 http://wp.consumerismcommentary.com/?p=239#comment-291 Here's another one...I think. Got a call from the Department of Unclaimed Funds saying they had a $12k insurance claim/payment for a person that shared my last name. Went to the Bureau of Unclaimed Property's website and sure enough, that person had a policy but they died and someone was hunting people down with the same last name. So far so good. But the name was misleading...the only "Department of Unclaimed Funds" was a listing for a company. The official state agency is the Bureau of Unclaimed Property. But, they used official information with respect to the decedant. So, was this a scam? Couldn't say, but it's something to keep an eye out for. Here’s another one…I think.

Got a call from the Department of Unclaimed Funds saying they had a $12k insurance claim/payment for a person that shared my last name.

Went to the Bureau of Unclaimed Property’s website and sure enough, that person had a policy but they died and someone was hunting people down with the same last name.

So far so good.

But the name was misleading…the only “Department of Unclaimed Funds” was a listing for a company. The official state agency is the Bureau of Unclaimed Property.

But, they used official information with respect to the decedant. So, was this a scam? Couldn’t say, but it’s something to keep an eye out for.

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