<prompt>  Human: Im posting for an older guy I work with who was contacted this week from a company based out of Michigan, who claims to have found an estate left by his mother - who died 3 years ago - of which he is able to claim. The estate is worth 41,000, and if he chooses to proceed with this company in claiming the estate they will keep 14,000 of it. Unfortunately I dont have ALL the details, but already this sounds like a scam or some kind of rip off to me. I do know the name of the company and will post it if Im allowed, perhaps someone will have heard of them and their services.Regardless of the company, lets just say there is an estate that he is able to claim. How do we go about tracking that down and proceeding to claim it without paying a third of it to some company? 