Fynders Keepers

A Los Angeles teacher inherited money from his adopted parents, held in their name. He spent two years dealing with the state directly and could not satisfy them that it was his. They refused him.

When Reclaim contacted him, he told them he already knew the money was real, that he had tried and failed, and that they were welcome to try. It took a year and a half. He was paid $225,000.

Ricky Maldonado is CEO and co-founder of Reclaim, a nationwide service helping people recover unclaimed money held by state agencies. He joins AssetFynd CMO Shaun Jackson to discuss why claims stall, what proof states actually require, and why the hardest part of the job is convincing people the money is real.


What is Fynders Keepers?

Hundreds of billions in lost financial assets are sitting unclaimed around the world. Dormant bank accounts, insurance policies, brokerage accounts, uncashed checks, forgotten estate assets. Money that was never collected because nobody knew it existed or where to find it. These unclaimed assets are collected and held by hundreds of governments and institutions across the world, waiting for someone to claim them.
Fynders Keepers brings together the leading unclaimed property experts and practitioners from law, finance, compliance, corporate restructuring, banking, asset tracing and claiming, genealogy research, international heir finding and wills & estates to share practical insights and real stories from the people doing the work.
Each episode features candid technical, and occasionally surprising conversations about the mechanics and challenges of locating and recovering lost assets, jurisdictional and cross border obstacles, ownership puzzles, the cases that took years, and the recoveries worth remembering.
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