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Enter a name exactly as it may have appeared on an old account. We search the State Controller’s published records under every reasonable variant of it, not just the spelling you typed.
This search covers properties worth $100 and above. Smaller properties exist and are claimable — they are on the State’s own site, not in this index. What this covers
41 records carry that name
The 38 shown below are worth $13,431 between them. A match is not proof — the State holds many people with the same name, and establishing which record is yours is the real work of a claim.
The State holds 252 records under the surname Scharf, worth $240,978. See every city and first name they are recorded under
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Strong match
Sam Scharf
Reported by Plains Exploration & Production Company
Held jointly with 2 other people
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Sam Scharf
Reported by Plains Exploration & Production Company
Held jointly with 3 other people
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Sam Scharf
Reported by Plains Exploration & Production Company
Held jointly with 2 other people
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Strong match
Sam Scharf
Reported by Plains Explor & Prod Company
Held jointly with 2 other people
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Strong match
Sam Scharf
Reported by Plains Explor & Prod Company
Held jointly with 2 other people
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Strong match
Sam Scharf
Reported by Plains Exploration & Production Co.
Held jointly with 3 other people
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Likely match
S F Scharf
Reported by At&t Teleholdings Inc.
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Likely match
S F Scharf
Reported by Comcast Corporation
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Likely match
S Scharf
Reported by Metropolitan Tower Life
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Likely match
S F Scharf
Reported by Bellsouth Corp
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Worth checking
Sarah J Scharf
Reported by Wells Fargo Bank Na (apecs 1009)
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Steven K Scharf
Reported by Ocwen Financial Corporation
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Sarah J Scharf
Reported by Kaiser Foundation Health Plan
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Steve Scharf
Reported by Amerigas Propane Lp
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Sean Scharf
Reported by Metabank Na
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Stuart Scharf
Reported by Gep Administrative Services Inc Dba En
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Steven Scharf
Reported by Comcast Cable Comm Mgmt Llc
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Sheryl M Scharf
Reported by Mid Century Insurance Company
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Sheri Scharf
Reported by Paypal Inc
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Sarah J Scharf
Reported by General Electric Company
Held jointly with 1 other person
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Sarah Scharf
Reported by Assoc. Students Of Stanford University
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Sarah Scharf
Reported by Cigna Health & Life Insurance Company
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Steven K Scharf
Reported by M & T Bank
Held jointly with 1 other person
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Stacy A Scharf
Reported by M & T Bank
Held jointly with 1 other person
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Sarah Scharf
Reported by Cigna Health & Life Insurance Company
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Sadie Scharf
Reported by Verizon Communications Inc/gte Corp
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Sadie Scharf
Reported by Verizon Communications Inc/gte Corp
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Sean A Scharf
Reported by Navy Federal Credit Union
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Steven M Scharf
Reported by Capital One Bank Na (canada Branch)
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Sarah J Scharf
Reported by Bank Of America N A
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Stephen J Scharf
Reported by General Electric Company
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Sarah J Scharf
Reported by General Electric Company
Held jointly with 1 other person
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Susan Scharf
Reported by Pathward
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Sarah Scharf
Reported by Cigna Health & Life Insurance Company
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Sarah Scharf
Reported by Assoc. Students Of Stanford University
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Susan Scharf
Reported by Interinsurance Exchange Of The Automobile Club
Held jointly with 1 other person
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Sarah Scharf
Reported by Paypal Inc
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Shai Scharf
Reported by Blue Cross Of California
Showing the 38 most valuable of 41. That is a common name — add a first name or a city to narrow it, and try any former spelling.
Tell us if this name comes up again
Banks and insurers hand accounts to the State Controller roughly twice a year, and the file grows every time. We will keep checking this name against each new file and write to you if it appears.
How You Are Protected
Our fee is capped at ten per cent of what is recovered by Code of Civil Procedure §1582, and nothing is owed until the State Controller has paid you. If we recover nothing, you owe nothing.
There is no deadline. The State holds unclaimed property indefinitely, so nothing here is urgent.
A Second State File
1 probate estate carries that name
Separately from unclaimed accounts, the State Controller publishes the estates of deceased people that reached it through county probate. This file names the decedent and the heirs on record, which the main file does not.
1 is still open, holding $32,951.
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Haga Eleanor N
Matched on Scharf Stephen (heir)
2 heirs named on the State’s record
Fees on probated estates are not capped by the ten per cent rule that governs ordinary unclaimed property. How estate claims work, including what we would charge and why the difference exists.
How This Search Differs from the Official One
The State Controller’s own search matches what you type, and nothing else. Ours also finds maiden names, married names, initials, common misspellings, hyphen variants, and business names with and without their suffixes — because the record was created by whoever held the account, not by you.
Every result comes from the Controller’s own published file, which we rebuild weekly. Each one carries the State’s own property ID, so the record you are looking at is traceable to the source rather than to us.
What We Search Under
- Your name as typed, plus initials and middle-name variants
- Maiden and former married names, if you tell us them
- Common misspellings and transposed letters
- Former addresses in California
- Business names with and without Inc., LLC, Co. and DBAs
How You Are Protected
Our fee is capped at ten per cent of what is recovered by Code of Civil Procedure §1582, and nothing is owed until the State Controller has paid you. If we recover nothing, you owe nothing.
California Unclaimed Property Services is a private asset recovery firm. We are not the California State Controller’s Office.
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