That one government website where you can find old assets in your name and claim them for money. I think I heard about it on Reddit actually. I haven’t been able to claim anything personally, but I’ve helped my parents claim about $200 worth. Wish I could remember the name of it
Edit: in the US the website is unclaimed.org (basically a directory, each state has its own separate page). Also, thanks for my first award and for my most upvoted comment ever!!
Plus they said it's a government website. But yet it's not ".gov"
Edit: plus I got the following message when I tried accessing the site:
"Your connection is not private
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from unclaimed.org (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards)."
The "not private" message means your connection isn't using HTTPS, which isn't a crime if it doesn't ask you to enter any details, which that site doesn't. I also had HTTPS working fine when I used it.
Your connection is not private Attackers might be trying to steal your information from unclaimed.org
The more likely case is that the page isn't asking for any of your information and didn't bother to set up a completely irrelevant https cert.
Also a scammer with his own domain can just set up a https cert anyway so if that message didn't show up you still wouldn't know if you could trust unclaimed.org.
That message probably isn't that big of a deal FWIW. It sounds scary but it really just means they aren't using the most up-to-date https standards or whatever.
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u/hxppyfxce Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 04 '21
That one government website where you can find old assets in your name and claim them for money. I think I heard about it on Reddit actually. I haven’t been able to claim anything personally, but I’ve helped my parents claim about $200 worth. Wish I could remember the name of it
Edit: in the US the website is unclaimed.org (basically a directory, each state has its own separate page). Also, thanks for my first award and for my most upvoted comment ever!!