Scam or service?

The Writers Guild of America is either retrieving unclaimed foreign royalties on behalf of writers or padding its own budget with someone else's profits. The Guild staff could not be reached for comment, as they were at a massage-and-maitai retreat in Tahiti. Team-building, you know.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/19/business/media/19guild.html??th&emc=th