[LINK] Spam filters may increase government unclaimed account revenue

[Tom Worthington]

This week I noticed an email in my Spam folder warning that if I did not 
send my details, unclaimed money in my bank account would be transferred 
to the government. The message contained the word "advices" so I thought 
it was a badly worded scam. I was about to press the "Junk" button to 
tell the system to block future such messages, when I noticed it was 
from my financial adviser. It turned out this was a genuine message.

Australian banks are required to send the government any money in an 
account which has not been used for three years. Had I not read the 
email, my money would have disappeared. How much money is going to the 
government because the unclaimed account notices look like Spam?


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Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia  http://www.tomw.net.au
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science,
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