Hello Oz B community,
I recently received a letter from Case White & Associates.
Stating that I have a sum of money payable to me.
Im guessing its an unpresented cheque or lost super.
I am not too happy with the customer service I received upon my initial call so I'd rather them not provide any other services.
I would like to know which databases they may of accessed to retrieve this information.
Also if anyone else has received this letter from them.
Thanks
I remember this happening to my mother from different institutions.
Basically used the information they sent to me to trawl through the state revenue office site to look for the monies and found them.
The process was easy and did not cost the % they were charging to claim.
Thanks everyone for the prompt replies. It came up straight away on Nancy's link for moneysmart.gov.au
And you won't have to pay them a finders fee, which I presume they're after.
It fits some where between scam and helping you. If you are lazy and say yes they take a percentage cut ( the scam part) of the money you are really owed (the being part), which is how they can afford to contact you. If you can find the money yourself you get even more cash in hand..
My mother in law keeps getting letter from a similar agent, but we can't find out what money they are supposed to be recovering and they don't provide enough info to see if they are legit, so that one has gone into the scam pile and is ignored. The search from above have turned up empty, but it's possible the father in law did invest some money they had forgotten about, but he has passed on now.
If your mother in law has ever been known by other names, make sure she searches under all of them. Otherwise, find out who they say they are, look them up and see if they appear to be legitimate, then ring them on their direct line and find out what they're on about.
If it's related to another person, look up their name too - you can search for anyone, but you won't be able to access unclaimed money unless you have the appropriate documentation/power of attorney etc.
We've tried various methods, to no avail. My wife, who has power of attorney for her mum, tried ringing and the company wouldn't provide any more details. When it comes down to it, if they aren't willing to provide information to us, why would we provide them with the opportunity to collect even more personal data, and a bit of cash too.
If it's for real, then I'd guess they found it on publicly available sources. There are separate federal and state offices that handle these things, so check both.
Also search the agent name and see if there's any forum discussions that mention some other info sources they might trawl.
Probably a good way to tell that this is the real deal then, as scammers tend to be very customer focused.