Delta You Wanna DO WHAT With My Gift Cards?!

I have printed E-Certificates and actual gift cards. I never paid a thing for them since they were acquired when you could redeem Amex travel fees for gift cards. I had 7 cards with $50.00 face values that I received the notification for. I never turned the info in but about a year later I noticed them on my states unclaimed money website with my name listed for a total of $350.00. I claimed the money, filled out the form and about 6 weeks later received a check for the $350.00. The crazy thing is, when I go to the Delta website, all my cards still show a value of $50.00. I called the toll free number on my cards and they still have a $50.00 value for all 7 cards. It’s about 9 months since I received my cash and all are still valid today.
I also have $600.00 worth of paper E-certain that I never received any notification that they were going to be turned over to my state. So it looks like the plastic cards are being viewed differently than the E-certs.

Not sure if this is a scam, but sure “feels” suspicious to me. I say just go ahead and use them cards up!!!!
Find it hard to believe so many states have this unclaimed law (mine is Minnesota).

I ignored my letter and let Delta send the gift card to my state. I then jumped through some hoops and got a check for the face value of the card.

This is one way to make a little bit of money, buying discounted GC and holding for 3-5 years. But you might make more with a high-interest checking account, so YMMV.

Where to track whether they have received my response?

I just received one dated 4/23/2021. Said the last transaction was 6/26/2015. Problem is I don’t know where the gift card is (even if it exists). Letter doesn’t give an option to reissue. Hmmm?! Why wouldn’t that be an option?!

I am here to investigate the mailing address after googling it. It’s July, 2020 and I received a similarly worded and designed letter for a pharmacy medication refund from a rebate date of 2014. I am concerned that it is a scam since I called the pharmacy “rebate dept” and the rep on the phone said my father does not appear to have an account. Let me tell you that was not an easy dept to get to. They are internal and had to be transferred to it after five other depts helped me. That could be because it’s from 2014? I don’t know. What I was hoping to discover from my reply is, did any of you who posted actually mail back the letter to the PO box listed on the letter you received (the same one on my letter- PO Box 802889 at the 13770 Noel Road post office)? If yes, did you receive a positive response or attempts to conduct fraudulent activity with your information that you provided? Thanks so much. I just want to double check that this is a third party unclaimed property processing company being used by corporations to do their due diligence and then clear out the books of unclaimed property before they send the check to each state that the customer resided in. In my case, Nevada. I may do what was suggested. I may let the due date pass and then go to the state processing center for unclaimed property to see what is there. This company may reduce the amount with a kickback similar to how debt collectors do it? Does it effect the consumer’s rebate / refund amount? Why has it not already been sent to Nevada if the rebate is from 2014. Anyone else who received a McKesson letter similar to mine, provide details if you know why the delay. Maybe it’s a class action lawsuit that has been processed? Thanks so much!

I got this letter recently. Looked up the numbers and verified it was for an eGift card christmas gift.
What is the correct response? Should I say I own it and maintain the balance or that I am not the owner of the card. I’m affraid if I say I don’t own it, it will go to the state when my family member has it and intends to use it once this pandemic is over.

Hi,
I have been reading these posts with interest. I just got one a few days ago, and I live in Ohio. I gifted the gift card to my son in 2016 ($500) which he has yet to use. I found it interesting that the return address envelope is to Ryan LLC. The letter return address is C/O Delta Air Lines, Inc. different address, but same road. I did some checking on my state unclaimed property website. According to Ohio Code ORC 169.01 (B)(2)(d) as of June 6, 2001, “EXEMPT from unclaimed property claims are Credit due a retail customer that is represented by a gift certificate, gift card, merchandise credit or merchandise credit card redeemable for merchandise is exempt in unclaimed funds reporting.” So, according to Ohio law, the gift card cannot be ‘transferred to Delta Air Lines’ because it is exempt from unclaimed funds reporting. Therefore, I DO think this is a scam.. I think this guy is sending out letters nationwide and seeing which ones stick. I think if you check #4 or #5.. he can make up a gift card with that original amount. Instead, I am calling my state attorney general and reporting this as a fraud/scam.

Can anyone provide a mailing address send this letter back to Delta? My mail was lost by USPS and I did not kept a copy. Thanks.

it’s state law that companies are required to turn over the gift cards. It’s called unclaimed property, so they don’t expire as the value remains the same

My wife (3 certs.) and I (4 certs.) each got a letter from the same company. Interestingly, these were all paper certificates. I also hold gift cards that are a year older but never received any notification in the past on these. I recently checked my name on the state unclaimed property page and I, nor my wife were on the list. I kind of like the idea of just ignoring the letter and claiming the money in a few months if this is actually legit.

I love in MI, got seven letters today on Delta gift cards from Amex, I moved 2.5 years ago, thank goodness the people who bought our house texted my wife and we live a mile away so picked them up. Mail only gets forwarded for 12 months so some people may not even know they should of got these letters today.

California resident here, got a couple for gift cards from 2016. The gift card numbers match my records, and I indeed never used them.

Sending all three back to have them maintain the balance.

Got the same letter in PA. What’s interesting is that a while ago I had four $250 HP gift cards that I forgot about (and didn’t get any letter about from HP). Then they went to the state as unclaimed property and when I went to claim them, Pennsylvania sent me four $250 CHECKS. I think I’ll do the same this time around and collect $100 in cash in about 6 months.

I received the same thing for Pennsylvania. Called Delta and they knew nothing. Seems illegal to do this since they say they never expire. Mine is exactly 3 years old.

I live in Michigan and my wife and I got a bunch of these letters yesterday in the mail. I called Delta today and no one there had any idea what I was talking about. It was a very frustrating series of calls. They suspect that it is fraud (though I can’t understand what the fraud-perps are phishing for…) and strongly suggested that I do not respond. They are sending the case over their fraud department at Delta for additional investigation, because I do not know how an illegitimate group would get the gift card numbers, original balances, and date of purchase without hacking me or Delta. I also do not want my gift cards to be turned over to the state to have to go through the state reclamation process, but I’d rather do that than expose myself to fraud. Tread lightly.

Got the same letter in California. So maybe delta initiated it?

Legally this is called “escheat.” Each state has a version involving different periods of time after which inactive financial instruments/property must be sent to the state.

Everyone should find the applicable state agency where he or she lives and perform a search to see if any property is being held. The property could be cash, refunds, contents of safe deposit boxes, shares of stock, etc. For instance, California currently holds almost 6 billion dollars of residents’ property, while New York is almost 12 billion (ostensibly because of Wall Street).

Just received 4 of these myself (MI resident). 4 $50 GCs purchased 3 years ago. Thought it was kind of scammy based on the fact that it’s on laser paper with a weird Delta watermark, but glad to see I’m not the only one getting these notes.

Do you think this is triggered solely by the time since purchase? Since you said 4 years ago, is this 4 years exactly? And is this for all the cards you bought that didn’t use or just this one? Appreciate any data points, I hoarded quite some Delta gc over the years.

i got the same letter. bought a delta gc for delta amex statement credit 3 years ago. its a good reminder to get me to use it

This is interesting because I still have a bunch of AA gift cards from this same reason that are probably 5-8 years old. (I seem to just always pay with points :). I knew they never expire so I wasn’t worried about them but maybe I should pull them out & look them up?