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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: x0847Marine on March 13, 2006, 09:31:51 AM
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I decided to Google my name for the heck of it, found me self on a "whereabouts unknown" list on The Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians website.. it says they owe me $$.
So I call the 888 number...
Turns out the US Govt has owed me money for THIRTY EIGHT YEARS, 38!... it's been in a high yield interest earning account since the day I was born... we're talking huge, they lady on the phone, her exact word were "Lets see I found your name and, uh...oh my god.."
Apparently any unclaimed accounts in my family go to me, not all accounts are $$ based, I have land somewhere in Kansas they've been taking care of for me.
My father has a significant amount of Native American blood, at birth I had some "payback" $$ placed in an account... over the years they lost my info and kept investing my money... 38 years later its "a nice chunk of change"
So I'm thinking this is all pretty cool.
Edit: I just read some of these accounts are worth 5.75 Million ea, 12,700 accounts with balances totaling $69 million... most were deposited on the same day are are fo equal amounts. I wont know my exact award until I ill out some paperwork.
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Did they ask you for a credit card number and/or your SSN? :huh
Incidently, I consider myself "rich" anytime I discover I have $20 cash in my wallet that my kids or wife haven't discovered yet...:aok
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No ****? How much money?
Not that it matters to me, I don't have a touch of indian blood in me.
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http://www.ost.doi.gov/
The government office seems legit.
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Unfortunately I am not listed on the site. :cry
About 7 years ago I got about $80 back from the State's office on unclaimed funds after searching their web site. Turned out that the company that I worked for during a college internship had a check for me for reimbursed parking expenses. :aok
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Originally posted by x0847Marine
I decided to Google my name for the heck of it, found me self on a "whereabouts unknown" list on The Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians website.. it says they owe me $$.
So I call the 888 number...
Turns out the US Govt has owed me money for THIRTY EIGHT YEARS, 38!... it's been in a high yield interest earning account since the day I was born... we're talking huge, they lady on the phone, her exact word were "Lets see I found your name and, uh...oh my god.."
Apparently any unclaimed accounts in my family go to me, not all accounts are $$ based, I have land somewhere in Kansas they've been taking care of for me.
My father has a significant amount of Native American blood, at birth I had some "payback" $$ placed in an account... over the years they lost my info and kept investing my money... 38 years later its "a nice chunk of change"
So I'm thinking this is all pretty cool.
Edit: I just read some of these accounts are worth 5.75 Million ea, 12,700 accounts with balances totaling $69 million... most were deposited on the same day are are fo equal amounts. I wont know my exact award until I ill out some paperwork.
Congrats! That IS cool! Hope it's not a scam.. would advise putting a good lawyer or accountant on it immediately.
Again... that's just GREAT news all around. Love to see a guy get 'touched'... makes living life that much more interesting, dontcha think? ;) :aok
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Damn saw my first and last name on there (very rare), but with the wrong Middle intial.
For a split second there...
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Well my wife.... I shoulda never told her ::cries:: is doing the "happy dance", I'm pinching myself thinking how exactly to rub this in my X-gf's face.
The wifes dancing afer we started reading up on the issue, congress is apparently about to settle the below case, which I am verified a part of, for BILLIONS of additional dollars. I had no idea my name was involved with any class action suit.
http://www.indiantrust.com/
However much it is, I'm told that I will be flown to Kansas to collect.
If your name is on the list.... there's $3.3 BILLION hanging out collecting interest.
http://www.indianz.com/News/2006/012835.asp
"The federal government held $3.3 billion in trust for tribes and individual Indians as of 2005, according to a recent financial report from the Department of Treasury.
In 2005, the tribal trust fund balance was $2.9 billion. Receipts were $518 million, up from $414 million in 2004. "
http://www.indianz.com/News/2006/012774.asp
"Depending on the error rate and interest rate, a settlement could be worth anywhere from $5.6 billion to $9.8 billion, Bickerman said. He didn't recommend these figures outright but urged lawmakers to reject the Interior Department's suggestion that less than $500 million is owed."
(with my luck, they'll fly me out there and present me with my .22c check after all deductions)
Edit: thanks! for the kind thoughts, I'm FREAKING THE F OUT... I'm the guy who gets hit by stray bullets (ture story), if not for bad luck.. I'd have none at all. The last time I won or was awarded anything was a dart board I won from the Ft.Sill PX in 1988.
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Beers are on you at the con then eh?
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/209_1137109117_20029211530-0-swoop.gif)
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Thats very cool xmarine :)
You interested in adopting a 46 year old slightly pudgy kid?;)
Congrats, nice to see someone getting a bit back.
cheers,
RTR
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This could become the coolest BBS story ever. Good luck Marine.
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Dude that is awesome. I hope it works out and it isn't some kind of scam.
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Originally posted by Swoop
Beers are on you at the con then eh?
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/209_1137109117_20029211530-0-swoop.gif)
No BS, if by some odd twist of fate I actually have an obscene amount of $$ waiting, yes... drinks on me even if I'm not there.
They wont tell me how much, but I know its me for sure... they sent me 1 check when I was 18, I thought it was a 1 time thing... bought a 1984 VW GTI
They tried to send additional settlement monies later that year... but I had moved out, and was on active duty. They don't forward checks no matter what, so it was sent back and has been collecting interest since (20 years), along with what was already there (add interst from birth 18 years).
During these past 20 years, various groups & tribes have sued and won millions for various other US Govt misdeeds (like flooding Indian land), those winnings were distrubuted to these interest bearing IIM accounts... even for those who, like me, were "whereabouts unknown" for 20 years.
People who have land, these trustees have been managing the land, some is farm land, some timber even oil reserves.. and profit the land yeilds goes into the IIM account.
..and now we have a possible 6 to 9 more billion in "we're sorry" money from congress.
I'm actually very nervous, the lady on the phone at the Govt office specifically said they dont give out "this kind of money" without my showing up in person.
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Very cool indeed.
I hope it is millions man!!!:aok
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Freakin A xMarine!! good luck and i hope its a 6 figure sum!
:O
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bye bye ****ty neighbours :D
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Good to hear xMarine, where is this "list" you are talking about though? Not that I would be on it, to my knowledge there is no indian in my blood. But just for the record.
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good luck with that
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Originally posted by nirvana
Good to hear xMarine, where is this "list" you are talking about though? Not that I would be on it, to my knowledge there is no indian in my blood. But just for the record.
http://www.ost.doi.gov/LocatingIIM/whereabouts.html
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How cool is that?
Stumbling on a fortune by accident.
Good for ya!
If it turns you into an arrogant arsewipe, I'll beat you with a blunt spoon :D
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Originally posted by Mickey1992
http://www.ost.doi.gov/LocatingIIM/whereabouts.html
Google listed me as "whereabouts unknown", linking here:
http://www.doi.gov/ost/LocatingIIM/A_Z/k.html
2 others with my last name are listed, they could be related to me... I'm looking for them but I'm pretty sure one of them is deceased, which makes sense since I was told any left over family IIM accounts would be absorbed into mine, and it looked like that was the case.
This is just way too strange, whats odd is these trustees made zero effort to find me, none. Once I stopped collecting the mail they sent, 20 years ago, they held everything.
I've googled myself before and found nothing, I did so today thanks to that article about the chick who googled a dude and found out he was slime.. so she kicked him to the curb. I wanted to know what kinda nasty cheese there was about me, my x-gf is a raging loon and I was sure shed done something to slander me.
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Originally posted by x0847Marine
whats odd is these trustees made zero effort to find me, none.
It's called "trustee fees" and the said fees are probably based upon assets under management or "trusteeship".
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I found an old Ju Ju bee in my couch. I am truly blessed:aok
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GO get that money man!
I hope it makes you rich!
:aok
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great news, good luck with it all. :)
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Well you can get yourself outta that bad neighborhood now!
Congrats!
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I googled my name, but I'm far from the only "Michael King" out there :( If I toss in my middle name, I get a bunch of crap about King Edward. Blah.
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I am full blood Lakota, show me the money Google!
edit:%$#%! not a dime, what the heck is up with that
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I googled my name and all I found was a couple reviews on Amazon about some camera equipment I bought. :(
Googled Beet1es name and found this:
(http://cover6.cduniverse.com/msiart/large/0000421/0000421034.jpg)
(http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/images/smilies/gay.gif)
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If you want to give me 1 million of all those millions I let you kill me in MA a thousand times,in a row.
:p
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Now I am very happy for you Xmarine!
I was however a little bit dissapointed when I googled my own name, I only found a french chef in Montreal... ;)
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I hope they aren't flying you out on April 1...that would suck. ;)
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Gratz. It's good to hear about other's fortunes.
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eskimo looks for some black hair dye, red shoe polish and a feather.
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Hey, my name is on the list, spelled just as it is on my social security card, and my Dads, my brothers and my Dads brother names are there too.
Could it be?
I doubt it, but what the heck. Its only one phone call. Dont think I have any Indian blood.
dago
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I hope they don't put the cuffs on you for that old warrant when you show up to collect the money... :eek:
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Hi..just stopping in...oh my...you look loaded. BTW, Im a single female model looking for a quiet life in Kansas, who just happens to love flight sims...but enjoys serving beer to those playing flight sims even more.
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Oh, and I'm a 16 year old virgin girl in Kansas looking for someone to help me understand these strange new feelings in my body.
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:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :cry :rofl Filth and Chairboy
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Originally posted by Rolex
I hope they don't put the cuffs on you for that old warrant when you show up to collect the money... :eek:
lmao ... I remember that catch a crook scam ..
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lol, you serve your country and they cant find you?
No wonder there is damages added to the amount.
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Wobble flashbacks.
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Custer died for our sins.....
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Any status change?
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I'm going to break out the geneaology papers and see how many of those folks with Nichols as there last name could possibly be related to me. If any at all.
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Originally posted by Roscoroo
Originally posted by Rolex
I hope they don't put the cuffs on you for that old warrant when you show up to collect the money... .
Is he rich or is he sitting in a cell saying WTF??!! I did not know they could do that!
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If he was rich, why would be bother play AH anymore? He could just pay someone else to fly it for him.
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Originally posted by Chairboy
If he was rich, why would be bother play AH anymore? He could just pay someone else to fly it for him.
he could hire his own personal horde