No this is not a new game show nor is this a get rich quick scheme. You might be rich, but might not know it. Dateline.msnbc.com might just prove that you are. This is real money. Approximately more than $30 Billion dollars is just sitting in state treasuries awaiting to be claimed by more than 17 million people. State officials often don't have the resources to find everybody, so they just wait for people to claim it. What's great about this money or property is that it claims can be made into perpetuity even by the heirs. Boy ! I hope we had something like this in the Philippines, unfortunately unclaimed property in the Philippines is most likely being claimed by somebody else who is not the rightful owner. Most likely, the ones entrusted with these money might not be very honest enough to return it to its rightful owners. But I'm sure we also have unclaimed property in the Philippines such as insurance claims, bonds, stocks etc.  I hope somebody in the Philippines can come … [Read more...]