Payne Richards & Associates

Mr [redacted] our records indicate that you were paid on the claim our firm initiated on your behalfYour claim was not denied as you received your checkRegarding the denials you mentioned, the claim itself was not deniedIf the forms are not submitted in a timely manner they become inactive and considered deniedWhen this happens, a new request is submitted and new claim form is issuedYou decided to submit the third claim form we requested and your payment was approved Our agreement also states that you are to work exclusively with our firm during the recovery and it does not expireIf you have verification of filing the claim on your own prior to our agreement, please submit to our office for review

I received a letter from Payne Richards and just knew it had to be a SCAM But, then I re-read it and they had too much accurate information I contacted our police department who gave me information on how to check out Payne Richards (P/R) That, combined with Revdex.com info, indicates that they are squeaky cleanI read [redacted] B's review How unfair! She, like I, had no idea that we had unclaimed funds available Without that letter, we would never have known! So she is the beneficiary of that hidden money and is complaining because someone did ALL of the work for her, and wants a small percentage for their work How ungratefulIn my searching to check out P/R , I did locate those unclaimed funds and discovered how to file the claim myself So I did NOT use their services But I would like to thank them for notifying me, and to say that if I were not able to file my own claim, I would be happy to have them complete it for me

I inquired on their website about getting help with collecting unclaimed property They did absolutely nothing for me but provide me with claim forms that I already had off the State of Texas Website So six months later I submitted the forms myself and collected my money Now they are wanting me to pay for a service that they did not provide The forms I used were straight off the State of Texas Website

Ok, yes these guys are ss and have no problem on filling out forged E-signatures to claim you need to pay there bogus invoices. They are claiming they will file with a collections agency for 85.49. Ok, really? You sent me a bogus check to start and then you sent me a bill about 1 year later? DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY -- THIS IS A SCAM. Please send your information to your Attorney General's office. I guarantee they have received plenty of letters -- we need to shut this bogus operation down.

Go to your state comptroller and file your own claim I live in FL and have money from the State of Colorado from years ago Thank you PR&A for telling me so I can get it myself without your cut

Dear Ross,
Our records indicate that you agreed to our service and our
fee by signing our agreementAfter receiving your agreement our firm initiated
the claim and mailed you the necessary documentation for you to retrieve your
fundsYou submitted the claim and received the claim amount in
questionYou
have confirmed with us that you in fact received your check and therefore our
fee is due

Yeah, they're realThey can help you find money unclaimed and, as part of that help, they will take a fee of ~ 10%You don't have to use them, and in many states, you can go through your Secretary of State or similar government organization to find and claim the money yourself, but frankly if they send you a letter, you should at least look into your unclaimed moneyI didn't use them to claim it, but I did claim it myself, so I figured I'd at least leave a review, since I wouldn't have known about it without themI do hate scams, but this just isn't one of themThey're a service, even though it DOES seem scammy, it isn't

I received a letter from Payne Richard & Associates to verify that I have coming to me The first Red Flag was the misspelling of my last nameThe second is there is no way to get a hold of the company will the lines always busy
What does it take to reach a live person? The complaint is that I feel that they scammers and if they get people information from the national records, then they should have the name spelled correctly when they sending out letters to the consumers

They are a legitimate business, in that their services are legal, but they are dependent upon uninformed people when they contact you about unclaimed funds Frequently visit your state comptroller site and retrieve your unclaimed property at no additional feeThey look for people who have sizeable sums of unclaimed money on the state comptroller site They contact these people and instruct them to begin their claim for their money through Payne Richards and Associates' service There is nothing illegal about their language, but the wording of their letter will be deliberately vague so as to suggest that you must go through Payne Richards and Associates to retrieve your money Once you have signed Payne Richards and Associates' claim form, they will let you do all the legwork to retrieve your money through the State's maprocess, and they'll send you a bill for 10% of your money It's a clever way to make money, but they are absolutely taking advantage

My daughter received a letter for unclaimed property and her and I initially thought it was a scam After using the Revdex.com website we found out it was legit We were able to go to the Texas comptroller's website and file the claim ourselves I would like to thank them for bringing this to our attention If you receive a letter from them don't ignore it I'm unsure how other states are but in Texas the claims process is simple and we did not use their services Other states processes may be more complex and I think a 10% fee to use their services is not unreasonable,

I inquired on their website about getting help with collecting unclaimed property They did absolutely nothing for me but provide me with claim forms that I already had off the State of Texas Website So six months later I submitted the forms myself and collected my money Now they are wanting me to pay for a service that they did not provide The forms I used were straight off the State of Texas Website

I received a letter in the mail stating that I had $in unclaimed property coming to meI can't remember if that letter came from Payne Richards & Associates or notIn that letter it had a checkbox to have a fee be withdrawn from my check for the collectionI checked that box, signed and mailed back my formNext thing I know I get a letter from the state of ColoradoOn that letter it clearly states THERE IS NO FEE ASSOCIATED TO COLLECTING YOUR MONEYSo I notarized the form and mailed it backAfter mailing it, I then get an email on 2/28/that they hadn't gotten my formsThis was the FIRST email I had received about this issueI ignored the email as I had already sent the paperworkGot another email 4/17/and again 5/31/ I finally responded on 5/31/letting them know I had mailed the letter and paperwork into the stateThe emails were only signed
Claim Representative
And came from an email "Customer Service Representative"
So I had no idea this was a third party(Am happy to provide copy of email upon request)
That same day suddenly "Customer Service Representative" responded that the state had magically notified them that they had received my paperworkThis time the email was signed Valerie Ramos
Claims Representative
Payne Richards Associates
Jump ahead a few months to after receiving payment for a little over $On 9/I get an email from "Customer Service Representative" that congratulations I got my money and to look for an invoice in the mailThe only thing I ever signed was showing an amount of $and that a fee of a little over $would be deductedSo why an invoiceSo today I got yet another email (9/17) so I respondedValerie Ramos responds and sends me a "Copy" of the original "Legal Binding Contract" that shows that I agreed to pay 20% back to Payne Richards and AssociatesI asked for the Contract that I signed showing that I agreed to thatSo the email exchange happened quickly between myself and "Customer Service Representative" until I requested the copy of the contractI sent that request at 1:pm and didn't get a response for an hour laterAt 2:05pmSo what was "Customer Service Rep" doing during that time?? Perhaps Illegally signing a document on my behalf without my consent?
#1- The amount on the "Legal Binding Contract" Isn't even the same amount I received back from the state#2- It's an electronic signature- the only things I ever signed were on paper and mailed backNothing was ever submitted electronically
#3- If I do sign something electronically I sign with Hellosign which tracks the IP address of where signatures come fromThis was not a signature I use to sign documents electronically
#4- The document is an E-Signature that I didn't signSo who at this office signed it on my behalf and without my authorizationThere's no IP address on the document that can link that "signature" back to me#5- I immediately responded to "Valerie Ramos" telling her I believed they were attempting to scam and extort funds and to immediately cease and desist any future communication to my email, address or telephoneThat was sent on 9/17/at 2:15pm
#6- at 9/17/2:19pm she immediately responds that I'm more than welcome to look up the IP address on the document (not there Valerie) and if it's not paid they will report me to collections
So now they are attempting to extort money, harassing me and making threats against me and my livelihoodGood luck collecting anything from me or a Collections Agency after I tell them how Valerie Ramos refused to adhere to a legal binding Cease and Desist Demand!

Received a letter from Payne Richards & Associates addressed to my deceased Mom stating that she has funds due her from Valley National Bank that have been unclaimed and they have taken over to disburse to her (for a fee) When I called Payne Richards, they confirmed that their letter is accurate and wanted me to complete their forms that were enclosed with the letter and return to them with a copy of her Death Certificate Upon receipt, they would send me a check for the amount (undisclosed) less their fee I then contacted Valley National Bank and have been advised that this is a scam and they verified that my Mom never held an account with their bank

This was a great experience dealing with Payne Richards & AssociatesI was unaware that I was owed money from my state—what a nice surprise to get $$$ back

I have known about this property for years but gave up every time This time I had the help I needed to actually follow throughI couldn't be happier with the service I received

This company says they were hired by someone to find you to get you your money, WrongThey want you to pay them to tell you who has your moneyDeceptive business practices is what they have, dishonest, saying they were told to find you search the web for yourself for unclaimed money they pray on people that are unaware that there is there is money waiting on them through a free service Taking advantage of people

My experience with Payne Richards could not have been betterI assumed, with their first mailing, that it was a scam, but no, they had found funds I had failed to retrieve and were extremely helpful and easy to deal withThank you, Payne Richards!

November 18, Payne Richards & Associates filed a claim for unclaimed property with the State of Texas They sent me an "agreement" and claim that I "accepted" that agreement via online/email, which entitled them to 10% of the unclaimed property To date, I have no recollection of "accepting" that agreement Per their agreement, "IF YOUR CLAIM IS DENIED, YOU WILL NOT BE CHARGED A FEE" That original claim was DENIED
Later, I believe in 2016, Payne Richards & Associates filed a SECOND claim for the same unclaimed property with the State of Texas Again, that claim was DENIED
September 5, Payne Richards & Associates files a THIRD claim for the same unclaimed property They send me ANOTHER "agreement" which WAS NOT ACCEPTED! I filed the paperwork through the State of Texas myself and the claim was APPROVED
Payne Richards & Associates is now threatening to turn this over to a collection agency...even though the original claim was DENIED...the sec

Deceptive practices about who they are and that they were hired to find you but you need to pay them a fee to tell you

We received a letter from Payne Richards & Associates saying that, after unsuccessful attempts to reach us, JP Morgan Chase, had transferred our refund into a 3rd party account being held on our behalf and a P.Ifrom Payne Richards & Associates had tracked us downThis refund dated back to the sell of our home over years ago (and gave the correct address of our old home) It stated that we needed to provide certain documents to claim the money (photo of valid Driver's License, Social Security #, etc) and respond within days to receive the refund (of which 10% would be collected by Payne Richards as a finder's fee) All of this was a red flag to us, especially asking for the SSN We contacted JP Morgan Chase (as they had been the mortgage holder on the old property) and we were told that there had been no attempts to contact us and that account had been successfully closed with no overages Please be very aware if you receive something of this nature!