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"YOU DO NOT PAY US ANY MONEY UPFRONT". We are only paid on successful claims - that is paying you!

Since 1992 Money Finders has liaised with government departments, companies and solicitors in Australia and overseas to identify correct persons, or executors and beneficiaries who have lost or forgotten money.

Money Finders is paid to locate, identify correct persons/company's and pay them the funds.

Money Finders has also worked with Public Trustees in WA, NSW, QLD, TAS, SA, New Zealand and State Trustees in Victoria returning money to beneficiaries.

Unclaimed money is recovered from UK, Scotland, USA, Europe and Australia etc - this comes from old unclaimed money left in wills, bank accounts, lost dividends,  share takeovers, land not known to be owned then tracing the rightful owners or beneficiaries. 

The oldest unclaimed recovered money dates back to a deceased estate who died in 1895 - this money now belonging to four generations later!  

# Please check the credentials and details of our company below.

 About Money Finders:

A registered Australian company since 1992,  regulated under the Corporations and Unclaimed Money act.  ASIC business registration (ABN: 068 827 421) 

Head Office address: 27 Swallow Street, Port Melbourne 3207   Postal  address: P.O. Box 106, Port Melbourne 3207

Website: www.moneyfinders.com.au

                                             
Email:     graham@moneyfinders.com.au

Bank: Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 287 Bay Street, Port Melbourne 3207

Solicitors: McCluskys Lawyers 111 Bay Street, Port Melbourne 3207           Phone: (03) 9646-2833

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 Unclaimed money can also relate to various other sources - old company deeds, solicitors and estate payments,  dividends, council rebates, old land sales tatts lotto winnings etc.

To prove this is your money- you need to establish ownership.

These requirements are designed to protect your funds and prove your identity.  The Privacy Act only allows information to be divulged only to the correct person.

 Step 1:  Beneficiary to sign the “Authority to Claim Form”

 Step 2:  Beneficiary to supply a current certified copy of identification

               · Driver’s licence

               · Passport  

              ·  Other Official photographic identification

               · Boat licence

               · 18+ card/Proof of Age card/Key pass                  

Step 3:  Beneficiary to provide certified copy proof of previous address

               · Utility bill – electricity, water, gas, phone)

               · Rates notice

                · Dividend statement/Share certificate

               · Bank/Insurance statement

               · Any type of invoice or receipt

               · Road Traffic Authority – if you had a drivers licence or motor car registered at the old address you can get verification by contacting that road authority with a copy of your drivers licence

                · If you had a bank account when at the old address and you still bank with the same bank, they can write you/us a letter confirming you had an account at that old address 

If a beneficiary is deceased

               · Provide certified copy of death certificate

               · Provide certified copy of will and/or Probate if granted

               · All nominated executor's) to sign “Authority to Claim Form”

               · If there was no will or probate, all next of kin to sign the Authority and provide proof of relationship to the deceased along with certified copy identification 

If a company

               · Nominated Directors and/or Company Secretary to sign the “Authority to Claim Form”

               · Apply the business stamp or Company Seal to the bottom of        “Authority to Claim Form” or provide certified copy of “Certificate of Incorporation”

               · PLUS – Step 2 and 3 above 

WHAT IS A “CERTIFIED COPY”?

All photocopies are to be certified as a “true copy of the original” that has been sighted by an authorised person ie justice of the peace, solicitor, doctor, accountant, teacher, bank manager, police officer, pharmacist.

The certification must have that person’s name, title, registration number (where applicable) and be signed and dated.

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 Once you have established and provided proof that this unclaimed money belongs to you, Money Finders can tell you the source - this is due to privacy regulations, as the unclaimed money can only be divulged to the correct person. 

No money up front - we only get a fee from SUCCESSFUL completed cases only, OR some estates fees are pre allocated. 

Money Finders - since starting in 1992, has returned millions of dollars to people in Australia and Overseas.  Expenses and some fees are allocated prior - subject to where the unclaimed money is, what we have to do to find the beneficiaries - who else we have to pay to help retrieve the funds - (like genealogists, solicitors etc) and the amount of work required to retrieve the funds from the various companies, government bodies or trusts.  These expenses can range from one percent up to the highest tax bracket. 

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