Find Unclaimed Money With Easy Money
Every week the Easy Money Show teaches you how to find unclaimed money
On this page we highlight JUST our “FIND Yours” segments and blogs
On this page we highlight JUST our “FIND Yours” segments and blogs
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LINKS: To search for unclaimed SAG-AFTRA film, television and radio residuals, go here: www.sagaftra.org/unclaimed-residuals
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LINK: Websites that help you find the ideal cash back credit card for you.: It is the SAG-AFTRA union’s unclaimed residual database. I actually belong to this union because of my longtime TV career. Residuals are like royalties and are paid to performers or others when a show is syndicated and makes additional money elsewhere. For example, I have been the Dr. Oz Show’s consumer and investigative correspondent for several years now. If stations buy re-runs of Dr. Oz or if foreign countries pay to air the show, I get a residual for any time I appeared. Sometimes FIND More links from Episode 71 of Easy Money: LINK: Use RoyaltyClaim.com to search for unpaid music royalties: www.royaltyclaim.com/#pricing RoyaltyClaim.com was founded by music industry professor and consultant Dae Bogan. He says on his website: “I founded RoyaltyClaim, the world’s first search engine of unclaimed music royalties and licenses” to help “DIY musicians and rights-holders identify thousands of unclaimed entitlements. He says that in just a few months, scores of musicians have been able to find their missing money via the site “with one SAVE More links from Episode 70 of Easy Money: LINK: To find grocery auctions: www.Auctioneers.org. FIND More links from Episode 70 of Easy Money: LINK: To find unclaimed royalties held by SoundExchange:
SoundExchange —all one word— is the non-profit group congress designated to collect and distribute royalties for digital recordings. The group has paid more than $5 billion dollars to recording artists since its start. But it has also FAILED to pay others, when it was unable to locate them, through no fault of its own, and that’s where the unclaimed money opportunity lies. SAVE More links from Episode 69 of Easy Money: A software for PC that organizes all of the video out there into channels: PlayOn.tv Save money and get ride of your home phone:
Today’s resource: the American Federation of Musicians. The AFM is a musician’s union that represents both classical and popular musicians. For reasons I was not able to uncover, the AFM has something called the Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund in cooperation with SAG-AFTRA. SAG-AFTRA is the TV and Movie performers union that I myself belong to. According to Wikipedia, “ASCAP is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization that protects its members’ musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them accordingly.” I was inspired to look into this after interviewing my friend Tamara on last week’s show about her late beau John who left behind more than $5000 in unclaimed money thanks to his successful music career. So for the next few weeks I’ll cover unclaimed royalties for musicians, actors and other performers. TOP TIP links from Episode 67 of Easy Money: LINK: Join Godiva’s membership club, for all sorts of freebies here: www.godiva.com/get-chocolate-rewards SAVE More links from Episode 67 of Easy Money: LINK: MAKE More links from Episode 67 of Easy Money: Link: FIND More links from Episode 66 of Easy Money: Search for your unclaimed money: missingmoney.com Find your unclaimed property: www.unclaimed.org MAKE More links from Episode 66 of Easy Money: Take a look at freelancer.com‘s top 50 fastest-growing freelance jobs: For many months I’d been urging my friend Tamara to do a search. Finally, when she heard me talking about unclaimed money on Easy Money she decided to take my suggestions to heart. Her long time beau John, was a musician; brilliant, creative and successful— but not so organized with his money. And there were bills to pay after his untimely death. Today Tamara joins me for our featured “Find Yours” segment to share what she found. Welcome Tamara and thanks for doing this. If you are a veteran —or have a family member who is or was— you could be missing out on valuable unclaimed benefits! In episode 65, professional unclaimed money “finder” Nick Anderson of Ironwood Recovery describes this unique type of unclaimed money! FIND More links from Episode 64 of Easy Money: HUD web page to search for unclaimed FHA refunds: First, lets untangle the government-speak. Why do bureaucrats love acronyms? FHA stands for Federal Housing Administration. HUD is the Department of Housing and Urban Development. FHA loans are special mortgages insured by HUD that require lower down payments of just 3 to 5 percent and help people who wouldn’t ordinarily be able to get into a home. If this is you, there are a couple different types of unclaimed funds available. SAVE More links from Episode 63 of Easy Money: Cancer patient access to clinical trails: www.lazarex.org A list of other organizations that provide various kinds of financial support to cancer patients and their families: NIH has a similar web Now, I’m on the record as saying that for MOST unclaimed money searches, you do not need to hire professional help at all. Just go to MissingMoney.com and unclaimed.org and conduct your own search for free. BUT in the course of doing this show, I’ve met some finders who persuaded me that in certain situations you do want and need their help: namely really tricky searches or searches for long lost ancestors. FIND More links from Episode 62 of Easy Money: Search for your unclaimed money: missingmoney.com Or, for yourself or another adult, if somebody put money in trust for you, and you haven’t claimed it yet. Many thanks to Mary Pitman, author of the Little Book of Missing Money, where I first saw this information. MAKE More links from Episode 61 of Easy Money: Take a look at Bankrate’s top list of saving accounts: bit.ly/2N78wKH Check out Credit Union to avoid checking account fees:
One of the biggest battles is getting people to actually conduct a search for their money, even though it only takes 5 minutes and 1 in 10 of us has unclaimed money out there. So a smart unclaimed money entrepreneur decided to go where the people are: on their phones! Please welcome Nick Anderson, CEO of Ironwood Recovery back to Easy Money.
FIND More links from Episode 60 of Easy Money: Search for your unclaimed money: missingmoney.com Find your unclaimed property: www.unclaimed.org A mutual insurance company is one that is owned by its policyholders. So when you take out a policy, you are buying a tiny portion of the company and get to share in the profits of the company in the form of dividends or reduced insurance premiums. Insurance demutualization is when a company owned by its customers transforms into a publicly traded stock company. Maybe the most recognizable mutual insurance company is Mutual of Omaha, famous for sponsoring the Wild Kingdom TV show in the SAVE More links from Episode 59 of Easy Money: Buy Michelle Katz’s Newest Book: Healthcare Made Easy: TOP TIP Many states keep only their more recent records online, so asking for a search of older records could be just the ticket. This tip came from Steve Mondros of New Jersey who has made a hobby out of searching for unclaimed money. SAVE More links from Episode 57 of Easy Money: Learn more about saving on interest charges: www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/help/micropayments-cut-down-credit-card-debt-6000.php FIND More links from Episode 56 of Easy Money: Search for your unclaimed money: missingmoney.com Find your unclaimed property: www.unclaimed.org MAKE More links from Episode 56 of Easy Money: Wage growth chart for job hopping: www.businessinsider.com/earn-more-money-switching-jobs-2017-7 I covered unclaimed money for sororities in episode 54, so now giving equal time to the guys. I had to recall the names of some fraternities so I could search for unclaimed money for them to give you some examples. That made me think of my college boyfriend… and THAT made me google him. …And that, in turn, had me off in the weeds checking out all my other old boyfriends. And THAT made me happy I’m married to my husband. All when I should have been prepping for this show. But, I SAVE More links from Episode 54 of Easy Money: Prepare to negotiate and check the rental market where you live: Know what similar apartments cost: FIND Yours links from Episode 54 of Easy Money: Search for your unclaimed money:
Hello, pledges! How “in” with the sisters would you be if you found money that belonged to the house? All you do is go to MissingMoney.com OR unclaimed.org —Note that’s .org— and type the name of the sorority into the last name box or try different combinations in the first AND last name boxes. I did an experiment myself. I was a member of Tri-Delt, when I was at Berkeley, before I, ahem, deactivated —which MAKE More links from Episode 53 of Easy Money: Net metering policies in your state:
States first became the custodians of unclaimed money back in the 1960s or so. Their argument was that they were more trustworthy than businesses when it came to safeguarding citizens lost accounts. Back then, the states would let dormant accounts sit there for a good long time —maybe ten years— before considering them unclaimed money and forcing banks and other financial firms to turn the money over to the state. But soon state legislators realized holding unclaimed money was a MAKE More links from Episode 52: The Uber of Garden care app: greenpal.com SAVE More links from Episode 53 of Easy Money: Rebates offered by power companies:
Excellus, parent company of Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New York, has put together a searchable website where you can see if any of the checks it is holding is for you. FIND Yours links from Episode 51 of Easy Money: MAKE More links from Episode 51 of Easy Money: Should you hire a professional to help you search for unclaimed money? That is our featured find yours segment of this podcast. Let’s get the contentious question out of the way first: Why should people hire MAKE More links from Episode 50 of Easy Money: SAVE More links from Episode 50 of Easy Money: One state experimented with keeping people’s unclaimed money if they didn’t claim it in time. That state is Idaho, the Gem state, although most people probably think of it as the potato state. Yes, for quite a while, Idaho was the ONLY state in the country that had a law on the books stating that if citizens didn’t claim their lost accounts within a decade, the state got to keep the money. Idaho receives nearly $20 million dollars a year worth of unclaimed money, and less than a FIND Yours links from Episode 49 of Easy Money: The actual website of the Roundup class action: For our find yours topic for today, let’s talk about a lucrative class action settlement involving a garden product. [MUSIC: Fade music] The product is Roundup Weed & Grass Killer Concentrate Plus or Roundup Weed & Grass Killer Super. The lawsuit alleged that Monsanto advertised that these concentrated products could create far more spray than they actually could. Monsanto didn’t admit fault, but did agree to pay consumers a total of 21 and a half million MAKE More links from Episode 48 of Easy Money: SAVE More links from Episode 48 of Easy Money: When I was launching the Easy Money podcast, I searched for unclaimed money for everybody in my contacts list, and I found something for a friend named Lori Atwood who happens to be a certified financial planner. Here’s a summary of our interview about her unclaimed money. Here you are a financial guru. Were you surprised there was unclaimed money out there for you? What was the money from? FIND Yours links from Episode 47: MAKE More links from Episode 47: For all the thousands of people who never search for their unclaimed money and don’t even realize it’s legitimate, there is always somebody who’s fascinated by this missing money, searches for others, and tries to let them in on the good news. This “do gooder” trend is our featured “find yours” segment for this episode. My guest is Steve Mondros of New Jersey who has been interested in unclaimed money ever since he was a kid. Welcome, Steve! How did you first hear about unclaimed Guest Blog 5 Ways To Refresh Your Space For Spring On A Budget www.instagram.com/modsydesign/
On episode 44 I told you about all of the boy scout troops owed unclaimed money. Well, it’s only fair for me to give equal time to girl scout troops! Title 9 and all that. I once had the pleasure of surprising the Girls Scouts USA office in Pasadena, California with unclaimed money. It Make More Legitimate Mystery Shopping Companies in Good Standing With the Mystery Shoppers Coalition: AboutFace Ace Mystery Shopping
Imagine getting a letter from your state saying that a relative left behind a big pile of unclaimed money and you need to claim it. That’s exactly what happened to my guest. His father passed away in 2013 and left behind a tangle of financial accounts that were hard to sort out …and one of them went missing. My guest is named Hundreds or even thousands of boy scout and cub scout troops across the country are owed unclaimed money. That is our find yours topic for today. Many thanks to the Bryan on Scouting blog, where I first spotted this information. I have told you before how to search for unclaimed money for religious groups, charities and schools.
What if the government seized an account of yours as unclaimed money, even though it wasn’t unclaimed? It happens all the time and that’s today’s “find yours topic.” For Carla Ruff of San Francisco, it was her safe deposit box that was drilled, opened and turned over the the state of California. When I did a story about this for Good Let’s talk about our actual “find yours” topic for today: unclaimed money scams. Fraudsters who try to get in on the unclaimed money goodness. The National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators or ‘NAUPA” is warning that scammers have been taking the group’s name in vain and trying to take YOUR money. NAUPA is made up of Save More Michelle Katz’s book Healthcare Made Easy Make More Articles about professional snuggling:
Let’s talk about our find yours topic for this week: the strategy of teaching just your last name when you look for unclaimed money. This is a strategy for people who want to make sure they’ve turned over every single stone in their search for missing money. I’ve talked about where you should search, namely every single state to be I’m happy to say that this week’s “Find Yours” blog came from one of you. Let’s check it out. Hi, this is Patrick in California. I got a letter in the mail saying I am owed unclaimed money and this company can claim it for me. I don’t want to pay them a percentage, but I have no idea where Make More
Let’s talk about our find yours topic for today: the importance of finding any unclaimed stocks or bonds before the government sells them off. Here’s why this is crucial: one, many of us don’t keep close track of the investments we buy because we’ve been told to hold them for the long haul, so we just sort of let them stew and hope they go up. This is incredibly common.
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It’s a good idea to search for unclaimed money for older friends and relatives. After all, they’ve lived longer, so they’ve had more chances for their money to go missing. My guest has been searching for unclaimed money for seniors for years and wait ’til you hear how much he’s found. Gabriel Geiger is Director of Financial Services for Lifespan of Greater Rochester New York. (
Let’s talk about our find yours topic for today: how to recover unclaimed money from a brokerage firm that went out of business. It turns out there is a little-known agency that handles these cases called the SIPC or Securities Investor Protection Corporation. It’s kind of like the FDIC of brokerage firms, insuring customers’ accounts in the event the firm goes out of Let’s talk about our find yours topic for today: namely the importance of searching ALL 50 states if you want to be sure to find all unclaimed money owed to you. Yes, the states where you have lived are the top priority for a search, because unclaimed money is most often held in the state where the citizen lives or lived. BUT that is not always the case!
And now let’s talk about our find yours topic for today: how to find your lost 401k plan from a former job. If your old employer is still in business, chances are you can find your plan by contacting the company. But if the firm is no longer around, the Employee Benefits Security Administration —part of the Department of Labor— can help you with this.
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Our find yours topic for today is how to locate missing funds held by the FDIC. FDIC stands for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The FDIC is the independent federal agency that insures banks. More specifically, it insures YOUR deposits in banks. The FDIC was established by President Save More Find Yours SFMTA Escheatment Posting October 2017 Guest Blog
The City of San Francisco has unclaimed money for citizens and visitors who overpaid or paid duplicate parking tickets! And that means other cities or counties could too! People overpaid San Francisco a total of 600-thousand dollars between 1995 and 2014. Oops! My hometown really blew it this This time I want to talk about lost life insurance policies left behind by loved ones who have passed on. People often tell me there’s no way THEY would have unclaimed money waiting for them because they are way too anal and organized to have left money lying around out there somewhere. And I always counter with the fact that if not you, then maybe a relative left money Save More Make More 18 Brands that Give Fitness Pro Discounts Find Yours Lake Forest, CA – Unclaimed Property Guest Let’s talk about our find yours topic for today: local governments that are doing a good job of letting people know about their unclaimed money. Because, after all, it’s YOUR money, not their money. Some governments have tried to shorten the amount of time until an account is considered unclaimed to just ONE year, so that banks and brokerages have to turn the money over Make More Guest Blog Holiday Retail Sales Increased 4 Percent in 2016 8 Awesome Apps To Save Money This Holiday Shopping Season Birch Finance founder Alex Cohen’s Twitter –
The average unclaimed money claim is 800-something dollars, according to the National Association of Unclaimed Money Administrators, which is nice. But there are MUCH bigger unclaimed money accounts out there and REAL people DO benefit from them. I want YOU to be next! Here’s some inspiration:
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The SEC or Securities and Exchange Commission may have unclaimed money for you. The SEC goes after companies that have done investors wrong and sometimes orders those companies to pay fines and fees. If the SEC decides some or all of that money should go back to investors, you could be eligible. The SEC created a
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If you think you may be owed back wages from your employer, search the Wage and Hour Division, also known as the WHD —not to be confused with WMD. Much nicer, actually! The Wage and Hour Division has a database of workers who have money waiting to be claimed. WHD is a part of the U.S. Department of Labor. It’s the department that enforces many of our nation’s labor laws. When WHD find violations, it often recovers unpaid wages on behalf of Every day, lawyers settle class action lawsuits on behalf of consumers. With so many settlements out there, chances are you have purchased products that weren’t all they promised to be, somebody sued, and you could be due some money back. Normally, the courts require companies to send eligible consumers letters. But often they don’t Make More List of places in the U.S. that hire artist’s models Guest Blog Regina Kaluzny’s Links:
Let’s say you paid for a wedding dress at a local boutique and that boutique went out of business and declared bankruptcy before you got your dress. You should be on a list of people owed a refund when a trustee liquidates the store’s assets. If something like this JUST happened to you, make sure to GET your name on the list of creditors.
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I’m turning things around and showing you how to bag a bargain because somebody else’s property has become unclaimed property. Not all unclaimed money is just dollars left in bank accounts. Sometimes it consists of valuables left in safe deposit boxes. In fact, most state governments don’t use the term “unclaimed money.”
I want to talk about a pocket of money that’s small and yet big. I’m referring to unclaimed money created when somebody loses a home. It’s small, because, thankfully, this is a fairly rare occurrence statistically and yet big because real estate is a high-dollar game.
At last count, the U.S. Treasury’s Bureau of the Public Debt was holding 44.7 million matured, unredeemed savings bonds worth $16.3 billion dollars that the rightful owners have failed to cash in. One or more of those bonds could belong to your family. Let’s talk about how to search for unclaimed money for a small business —or a big business, for that matter. I emphasize small businesses only because there may very well be an owner/operator who will directly benefit from finding his or her own unclaimed money. There are probably more entries in state unclaimed money databases for people than for businesses, simply because there are more people! But unclaimed money listings for businesses tend to be bigger! In other words: worth This one is really more about claiming yours. The government doesn’t always make it easy to get your unclaimed money back. The positive spin on this is that the bureaucrats want to make sure they don’t give the money to the wrong person. The cynical view is that they’re reluctant to part with your money because they’re using it We begin today with our find yours segment. I’ve told you that small businesses often have larger pots of unclaimed money out there waiting for them than individuals do. Not as many accounts, but bigger accounts. My next guest found that out first hand when he was able to find unclaimed money for his business.
Let’s talk about how to keep your money from becoming unclaimed money! According to the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administers, property becomes lost when a company has no communication with the owner. You should contact institutions that hold your money or property every year and especially when there is an address change or change in marital status. For Let’s talk about finding yours —your unclaimed money— in a foreign country. Yes, other countries have unclaimed money stashes and some of that money belongs to Americans! This would usually happen if you once lived in a foreign country, but there could also be money for you in a foreign country if you worked or did business with a foreign company, or if your ancestors were from I’m excited because this is something I had never heard of, even in all my years covering unclaimed money. The Federal Trade Commission is the nation’s consumer watchdog, and when the FTC sues or settles with a company that has done something wrong, it often obtains refund money for consumers. LOTS of refund money. For example, in the first 6 months of 2017, the FTC returned $194-million dollars to well over a million consumers. BUT, there’s more to One of our Easy Money listeners recently left me a voicemail concerning her own unclaimed money. Hi, this is Olivia. I’ve been listening to your stories about unclaimed money, but I haven’t been able to find my own unclaimed money even though I know it’s out there somewhere. I used to have an account at a credit union in my As I’ve been telling you, at least 1 out of every 10 Americans has unclaimed money waiting. It may be hard for you to believe that you could ever misplace your own money. But what about your relatives? Your ancestors? You may be entitled to unclaimed money that they left behind. That’s exactly what happened to Carol Fox. How did you first get the idea to search the unclaimed money database? Honestly, I don’t give a flip about famous people. But I DO care about convincing YOU to conduct a search. So I wanted to show you just how common it is for people —including famous people, including you— to have unclaimed money out there waiting. Let me tell you the actors I found unclaimed money for. Ladies first: What happens when a loved one dies without telling anybody in the family that they had a life insurance policy? It becomes an unclaimed life insurance policy. One estimate is that a billion dollars in life insurance money goes unclaimed every year. Life insurance companies are not required to monitor death records or search for beneficiaries, although some do. And often those beneficiaries have no idea there’s a policy out there. So, side tip: it’s a good idea to make a list of all of I’ve been covering unclaimed money for years and whenever I searched for HEY, THINK OF THE BROWNIE POINTS YOU’LL BE EARNING WITH YOUR I WANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW TO FIND LOST PENSION MONEY. THE PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION IS THE FIRST PLACE TO LOOK. THE PBGC IS AN INDEPENDENT AGENCY CREATED BY THE US GOVERNMENT TO INSURE PENSIONS AND PAY THEM IF THE COMPANIES BEHIND THEM FAIL. THE PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION HAS A SEARCHABLE DATABASE OF 38,000 PEOPLE WHO ARE OWED $300 MILLION DOLLARS IN PENSIONS. THE AGENCY SAYS IT OWES INDIVIDUALS AMOUNTS RANGING FROM 12 CENTS TO A MILLION DOLLARS. I WILL LINK YOU TO AND NOW LET’S TALK ABOUT OUR ‘FIND YOURS’ TOPIC FOR TODAY: NAMELY, HOW TO MAKE SURE YOU’VE FOUND ALL OF YOUR UNCLAIMED MONEY BY CHECKING EVERY POSSIBLE VERSION OF YOUR NAME. WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT? THE SIMPLEST EXAMPLE IS MARRIED WOMEN WHO HAVE TAKEN THEIR HUSBAND’S NAME. THEY SHOULD ALWAYS SEARCH FOR UNCLAIMED MONEY UNDER THEIR MAIDEN NAME AND THEIR MARRIED NAME. BUT THERE ARE ALSO LESS OBVIOUS NAME VARIATIONS TO SEARCH AS WELL. HERE’S A LIST OF THINGS TO TRY WHEN USING THE WEBSITES HEADS UP, PEOPLE! YOUR CITY MAY HAVE UNCLAIMED MONEY FOR YOU! UP UNTIL NOW, I’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT STATE UNCLAIMED MONEY FUNDS AND HOW TO FIND THOSE, BUT IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO OVERLOOK CITIES AND THE MONEY THEY SOMETIMES HOLD FOR THEIR CITIZENS. LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS AT GOOD MORNING AMERICA, THE CITY OF PASADENA, CALIFORNIA WAS HOLDING A BUNCH OF UNCLAIMED MONEY FOR PEOPLE. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE CITY HAD MORE THAN A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS
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When you get to the SoundExchange page for searching for unpaid, unclaimed royalties, you can see that it is
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It’s easy to see how ASCAP royalties could go
Let’s start with BMI, which stands for Broadcast Music Inc. It is one of the groups that represent composers and songwriters. Some are famous like Patti Labelle and Michael Jackson.
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I wouldn’t normally focus in on a single state like this, but New York has such a big population and so many people go there for just a year or two to work, that this seems worthwhile. Excellus says it is holding more than $2.1 million dollars for 10,400 individuals and businesses! This is money that was paid for
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They’re called “finders” and I have often told you, my listeners, that you can find your own money without these pros. But guest Nick Anderson of Ironwood Recover impressed me with the in-depth treasure hunts he conducts for clients. Here are highlights of our interview.
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Some definitions: ”Matured” means they have finished earning interest.”Unredeemed” means the owners haven’t cashed them in. When you consider that savings bonds take 20 to 40 years to mature, it’s easy
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