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Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Travis Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > The shares were originally purchased through an actual stock broker in > town. They went out of business probably 15-20 years ago. About four years > ago, I received contact from a company called Computershare claiming they > had been put in charge of shares of technology companies that had not been > claimed or updated. My parents have probably moved six times during the > last 29 years, so any mail was being bounced back. > > We filled out their required paper application (along with a notary > signature) and sent it back to them. I never heard anything more, and > honestly figured it was a scam of some type. I made attempts over the last > few years to contact them (via the telephone number on the form), but it > was always voicemail and I never got a call back. I tried their website > many times as well, but without knowing an account number, I was never able > to login to their online system. > > Today when I checked, they had a new feature to request your account > number if you could provide all kinds of personal information... so after a > few guesses (like zip code, etc), I was finally able to get into the > account. > > Travis > > > > On 9/8/2016 3:40 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > > That's a very interesting give from your parents, for sure. Definitely > worked out to say the least. > > Why did it take years to get access to it? > > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Travis Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> So today, I was finally able to login to a brokerage account that was >> setup by my parents in 1987. They had given me four shares of Apple stock >> for my birthday, but because I was a minor, they had to be put under one of >> my parent's names as well. I think they spent about $200 for the shares at >> that time. >> >> I logged in to the account (that has literally taken me YEARS to get >> access to) and discovered I now have $8,800 worth of Apple stock. It was a >> great surprise, and the bonus was the $670 worth of dividend checks that >> were just sitting in the account because they didn't have a current address. >> >> Doing some quick math, that works out to about 13% interest over the last >> 29 years. Apple just paid for my new iPhone 7. :) >> >> Travis >> >> > >
