Find The Cash Dallas is hiding money around the metro

Find The Cash Dallas stashes Benjamins near landmarks across the metro for savvy scavengers who get there first.

• The Instagram account's following has more than doubled in just a few months to more than 256,000 followers.

The big picture: Similarly-branded accounts are popping up nationwide.

• One in the Twin Cities launched a few weeks ago, but accounts in Austin, Boston and Nashville, Tennessee, have been around longer. There's no indication who's behind the generosity.

Zoom in: The Dallas account launched last August — about a month after Austin's — with a video of a hand placing $50 on a post under the pegasus outside the Omni Dallas.

• Other prizes have been hidden near TCU, Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, the Fort Worth Water Gardens and in Bishop Arts District.

The intrigue: The people behind the account started hiding $100 bills in the spring with sponsorships from various business.

• They hid $5,000 in April, pointing followers to hints from the Wolf of Law Street, a Euless-based personal injury law firm.
• The law firm's account is private but says it's posting hints for Find The Cash Houston in its stories.

The bottom line: The account owner, who hasn't been publicly identified, told the Dallas Observer in February that the hunt "brings a bit of that adventure kid spirit back into our busy, stressful adult lives."