A woman who was owed more than $10,000 has warned others with unclaimed money about "fraudsters" offering to help with getting it back for a substantial fee.
The Wellington woman, who asked not to be named, said she and her husband put some money in a term deposit before they went travelling overseas. But when they got back, it slipped their mind that it was there.
After six years, the bank handed it to Inland Revenue who put the couple's details on the site and how much they had owed to them.
It wasn't until strangers started turning up on their doorstep two years later that they remembered their term deposit.
"The weird thing was that the first time we were told about it a man came to our house and he offered to get the money back for us if we paid a percentage of it to him. We actually got a few letters like that and then somebody saw it on the internet.
