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Florida Licensed Private Investigative Agency · A3600115 · Registered claimant representative
Received a letter saying you have abandoned property, unclaimed property, or unclaimed money in Florida? Three different kinds of letters reach Florida owners: a notice from the State, a letter from a licensed representative, or a scam. The official State website is ClaimYourCashFL.gov — free to search and claim.
Received a letter saying you have abandoned property, unclaimed property, or unclaimed money in Florida? Three different kinds of letters reach Florida owners: a notice from the State, a letter from a licensed representative, or a scam. The official State website is ClaimYourCashFL.gov — free to search and claim.
Not necessarily — the money behind it is usually real. Three kinds of letters reach owners: a notice from the State, a solicitation from a licensed representative, or fraud. Verify the property first on the State’s free database; if the record exists, the money is real no matter who mailed you. Then judge the sender.
See the three kinds of letters →Only three licensed professions: Florida-licensed attorneys, Florida CPAs, and Florida-licensed private investigators. The State publishes the approved list so you can check any of them. Total fees are capped at 30% of the claim and may be owed only after a claim is approved.
See who is registered →Filing is free; getting approved is the hard part. The State is a custodian, not your advocate, and the most common cause of delay is incomplete documentation. We prove entitlement, gather certified records, submit a complete package and carry it through review. Nothing is owed unless the claim is approved.
Read what the work involves →ClaimYourCashFL.gov, run by the Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Unclaimed Property. The free search is at portal.claimyourcashfl.gov/ClaimSearch. Any site on a domain that is not .gov — including this one — is private.
Read about the official program →Fourteen answers covering scam texts, the 30% fee cap, the only lawful agreement, deadlines, complaints and heir claims.
Open the full FAQ →Who publishes this guide
A Florida-licensed private investigative agency — license A3600115 — and an registered Florida claimant representative, based in Naples and serving all 67 counties. Florida-licensed private investigators are one of the three professions the State permits to assist owners with abandoned property claims, alongside Florida attorneys and CPAs. We wrote this guide because most of the questions we are asked are the ones below.
Florida-licensed investigative agency A3600115 and registered Florida claimant representative. Naples, all 67 counties. Licensed private investigators are one of the three professions the State permits to assist with claims.
Letter legitimacy
Florida holds more than $3 billion in abandoned property and about one in five Floridians has some, which also makes it a target for fraud. A letter about it is usually one of three things. Start with the property, not the sender: if you can find the record yourself on the State's free database, the money is real no matter who mailed you. Then judge the sender separately. Spyglass Investigations will review a letter from any company, including a competitor's.
Usually one of three things. Start with the property, not the sender — if the record is on the State's free database, the money is real no matter who mailed you.
Type 1 · Legitimate
The Division regularly mails owners when its records show they may have abandoned property.
Type 2 · Legal, but optional
Florida allows licensed attorneys, CPAs and private investigators to review public records and offer help. Spyglass Investigations is in that category.
A private letter is not a government notice, even when perfectly lawful.
Type 3 · Fraud
Common signs:
The honest answer
Many owners should simply file on their own. The question is not whether you can file — it is whether the paperwork behind your claim is straightforward.
Many owners should simply file on their own. The question is whether the paperwork behind your claim is straightforward — the State is a custodian, not your advocate, and it will hold or deny a claim it cannot verify.
Anyone can start a claim on the State's website in a few minutes, and that part is free. The difficulty is in what follows. The State is a custodian, not your advocate: it applies an evidentiary standard and will hold or deny a claim it cannot verify. The Division states that the most common cause of delay is incomplete documentation.
An investigator is hired to make sure the claim goes through: that entitlement is proven, that every required document is gathered in an acceptable form, and that nothing in the file gives the Division a reason to deny it.
The paperwork side
What we are actually hired for
The property is in your own current name, you still live at the reported address, the amount is small, and you have time to follow up. Keep the full amount — that is the right call, and we will say so.
The owner has died, there are multiple heirs, the business no longer exists, the address or name no longer matches, securities or a safe deposit box are involved, or a claim has already been denied or gone quiet.
Florida law allows a fee only after a filed claim is approved. If the claim is not approved, no fee and no costs are owed under the agreement.
Five minutes, in this order
No legitimate party needs money or a signature in the first five minutes. There is no deadline, so there is no rush.
Try every version: maiden, married, previous, business, misspellings. Search at portal.claimyourcashfl.gov. No match means the letter is unverified.
Florida publishes the private entities currently approved as claimant representatives. If the sender is not there and is not your own attorney or CPA, ask why.
One lawful instrument exists: form DFS-UP-309. §717.135 makes it the exclusive means of contracting for a claim — any other fee agreement is void.
Simple claim in your own name? Do it free. Heir, estate, business, securities or safe-deposit claim? That is where documentation defeats people.
Send us the letter. We check the account against the State’s records and tell you whether you need representation at all.
Call (239) 544-6423Claimant representatives
Florida does not let just anyone charge a fee to file your claim. The Division's own consumer guidance names three categories of licensed professional, and the State maintains a public list of the private entities currently approved. Anyone outside it who asks you to sign a fee agreement is a problem.
Only three licensed professions may charge a fee, and the State publishes the approved list. Anyone outside it asking you to sign is a problem.
Members of The Florida Bar in good standing.
CPAs licensed in Florida.
Agencies licensed by FDACS — Spyglass Investigations is in this category, license A3600115.
The official program · claimyourcashfl.gov
Claim Your Cash Florida is the public-awareness name for Florida's long-standing abandoned property program, administered by the Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Unclaimed Property under Chapter 717, Florida Statutes. The 2026 launch gave the program a new name and website. It did not change the law, the claim requirements, or the fact that the process is free.
Claim Your Cash Florida is the State's name for its long-standing abandoned property program, run by the Department of Financial Services under Chapter 717. New name and website in 2026 — same law, still free.
Not land or buildings. Financial assets that lost contact with their owner: dormant bank accounts, uncashed payroll and refund checks, utility deposits, insurance proceeds, stocks and dividends, trust distributions, credit balances and safe deposit box contents.
Businesses must try to reach you first. When they cannot and the dormancy period has run, the law requires them to hand the asset to the State, which holds it as custodian. The State never becomes the owner.
ClaimYourCashFL.gov — the official State website. Free search, free claim, no deadline. Official search: portal.claimyourcashfl.gov/ClaimSearch.
FindAbandonedProperty.com — this site. Private, published by Spyglass Investigations, a registered Florida claimant representative. Not the State, not endorsed by the State. If the address you are reading does not end in .gov, it is not a government site.
Previously searched FLTreasureHunt.gov? Same program. Use ClaimYourCashFL.gov now.
Questions people actually search
Whether it came from Spyglass Investigations, another recovery company, a law firm or someone you have never heard of, we will verify the account against the State’s records and tell you whether you need help at all. Nothing is owed unless a claim is approved.
Prefer to do it yourself? File directly with the State at no charge. We will still check your letter for free.
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Reviewed September 18, 2026. Nothing on this page is legal advice.