Ethical question about those missing-money.com sites.  What if you find a match, but aren't sure it's yours?
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You have to send in a copy of your license and SS Card I believe and they will determine if you are the person or not. \nI know this because my husband was on there. We sent the information to our state treasurer like it says, and he got a check for $64.00.\nThey aren't just going to hand out money just because your name and location are the same, they will verify it.
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I like this question but sadly, I don't think I have the answers. Hopefully we can get some ingenious and perfectly legal ideas.\n\nMost ideas from the net concerning money seems to be criminal ones, like phishing,spam and cheating through false promises.\n\nThere are some survey ones and those where you can pen artticles for a small fee.\n\nBut lets' see if we get something concrete+
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It sometimes is hard to tell them apart sometimes. Your best bet is that if you did not contact them, then they are more then likely trying to take advantage of you.\n\nMy recomendation would be to ask them for a contact phone number so that you can talk with them directly (and also be sure to ask when a conviniate time to call would be).\n\nAfter getting the number, first check it. My recomendations would to be use http://www.anywho.com to do a reverse directory search on the phone number to see who the number is registered to. In additon it turns out that google.com has a great phone number directory so simply search the same number on google.com also ( i learned even today, google publishes even UNPUBLISHED numbers...) .\n\nThe reason for doing this will to be able to...\nfirst, see if they are a legitamate bussiness and if they even have a phone number you can reach them at,\nand secound you can track Who that phone number is registered to.\n\n-edit DO NOT DO BUSSINESS WITH THEM... the texacoltd.com  website is not only down (and written in geocites) it obviously is not a "real bussiness". There is a chance (be it a slight chance) that they might have a really crappy website designer that does not know what they are doing.\n\nStill my recomendation would be to stay away from them.
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Well any company that asks for money for the privilege of working for them, raises some serious fraudulent questions to me. \n\nJust saw their site..i would advise NOT to do it. Their site isn't very well done really either.
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There's that many scams that it would be impossible for any one site to list them all.  The advice I usually give to people is to type the name of the product/service into a search engine and see what results come up.  In the majority of cases if it's a scam someone, somewhere will be on to it and there'll be helpful pages available.\n\nThere's certain signs that help to indicate if a website is a scam or not.  If it's a reputable organization that's behind it then the site should include full contact info including e-mail, phone and address details.  If a site isn't prepared to provide this information then I'd be suspicious.\n\nYou can also see which other sites link to it - use Yahoo search and enter the word link followed by a colon (:) followed by the URL of the website, this will show which other sites are linking in and this is often a good indication as to the reliability of a site.\n\nIf you're suspicious then e-mail them first (preferably using a one-off web-based e-mail address) and ask them to provide you with confirmation that they're a legitimate concern.\n\nIf there's a particular site or sites you might want to post another question specifying the sites concerned.
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That's a good question.  I wonder if there are any out there that are honest, and not scams.  Too many are out there that are just scams, so be careful, but if you find any, I sure would like to know.
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If you have to ask, you needn't bother.\n\nFind their coded cryptic ad in the classifieds. It could be anything. Wholesale rose bushes, pedigree dogs, crockery seconds, for example. They do like their crosswords.\n\nYou're looking for obscure references that lead to publicly available documents with hidden information. You have to prove you can track them down before they'll even consider you.
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If you had kept the website name you can give it to the police station and the will act acording to this.or you can ask some computers experts (specialist in networks) to follow the link and know the realy name of the owner of the website who cheated you.\nI hope that I gave you aconvenience opinion to act well.
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No I didn't know that. Would you still keep it if someone came up to you and said they had lost the money? More than likely though, if I find unmarked money, I will just keep it. The most I have ever found was a hundred dollar bill in a Six Flags parking lot.
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Based on the question you seem to be a pretty honest person, congrats on that one,  about the money you can keep it because there is no way to find out who the true owner is, and if you ask around every body would claim that they were the ones who lost the $20. I wish that you would have found a $20,000 instead of a $20, your honesty deserves it. God bless!
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Be careful of these services. If they are free, they do not have a vested interest in making sure the matches are safe and in the best interest. The match may actually be no match at all. Just be aware!!
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if he is not willing to give you his name, business address, and telephone number, it's almost guaranteed to be a scam. the other guarantee is if they promise a lot but insist on payment first. almost all "legitimate" businesses will show you everything you should expect before they accept any money from you.
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Here's the link for the main (free) site that gives you the links \nto like 35 states' sites.\n\nThe second link is also at the first place and kind of makes the \nsearch easier for you to do.\n\nMain website for all states\nhttp://www.unclaimed.org/mainframe.asp?VisitorType=owner\n\nCombined search\nhttp://www.missingmoney.com/\n\n\nGood luck getting your money!
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There's a lot of advertising at that site. I doubt it actually belongs to the people you are looking for.
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My roommate got caught in the same scam. The girl told him she loved him and sh*t like that. Saying that she needed him to cash the money order, and send the money to her sister. He got screwed out of 120,000 bucks. He went to the police but there was nothing they could do. That was over two years ago and he's still paying back the bank. Really sad that people are still falling for the scam now...even sadder that the people are keeping up the scam. At least you're smart and know it was a scam. What the police told my ex roommate was that there's no way to tell who the person is, so the most you can do is report it to yahoo. They'll pull the account, but they'll only create another one and be back out doing it in ten mins.
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If there is reason for mistrust, no doubt about it.  Even if there is trust there, you still run the risk of them looking for some website they visited a few days back in the history and seeing everything that had been visited.  Better off being upfront with where you visit online rather than have something suspicious found.
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You, personally can't find this out. It is confidential. If the person is suspected of fraud, you should report it to the agency, and let them handle it from there.