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I just received a settlement in the Equifax data breach lawsuit.

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January 20, 2023, 08:17 AM
Jim Shugart
I just received a settlement in the Equifax data breach lawsuit.
$5.21

Any suggestions on how to spend it or should I invest it?



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January 20, 2023, 08:30 AM
Flash-LB
Hookers & Blow
January 20, 2023, 08:31 AM
RogueJSK
That's how these broad class action suits work.

The jury awards eleventy million dollars.

The attorneys pocket 90% of it as payment for their grossly inflated "legal expenses".

Then a hundred million people pile in to sign up to get their slice of the remaining few million dollars, with each of them ending up with a few dollars and cents apiece.


In this specific case, the advice from the get-go was to go for the credit monitoring option instead of the cash award option, because the value of the years of free credit monitoring service would far exceed the couple of bucks you were going to get in cash.
January 20, 2023, 10:35 AM
blueye
That's a nice amount. I framed my check from a class action lawsuit from Chase in 2001. .53 cents.
January 20, 2023, 11:00 AM
Jim Shugart
I'm thinking about blowing it all on a dozen eggs.



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January 20, 2023, 02:33 PM
CoolRich59
I got mine today: $5.20. Roll Eyes


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January 20, 2023, 02:49 PM
RogueJSK
Jim got an extra cent. You got robbed.
January 20, 2023, 03:08 PM
CoolRich59
He must have suffered a much greater data loss than I did.


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January 20, 2023, 03:27 PM
Blume9mm
Wonder what it cost to process and mail a check for $5.20? ore more to the point what the lawyers charge to do that?


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January 20, 2023, 05:18 PM
Jester814
I got over 22 bucks! I guess they really screwed up my info. Mad


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January 20, 2023, 07:43 PM
Sig2340
Great karma.





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January 20, 2023, 08:55 PM
ZSMICHAEL
I only got 41 billion. Morgan and Morgan. I was robbed!
January 20, 2023, 09:22 PM
mutedblade
I too got $5.21. Guess it’s better than nothing but it would mean more to me if these cocksuckers didn’t have my data to hand out to random hackers


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January 20, 2023, 09:32 PM
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January 20, 2023, 09:50 PM
Jim Shugart
Ever feel like your life is a particularly dystopic episode of The Twilight Zone?





When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw
January 20, 2023, 10:35 PM
jljones
Lawyers always love to claim “it starts with a victim”.

What they leave out is “our big payday” then “it starts with a victim”




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January 21, 2023, 05:37 AM
Patrick-SP2022
The last "settlement" I received didn't even come in the form of a check, it went in as a credit to my PayPal account, which I don't even use.

A whopping $2.38






January 21, 2023, 11:15 AM
selogic
My Mom joined in on a lawsuit against a drug company . She got three checks over a year's time that amounted to nearly 80k .
January 21, 2023, 11:55 AM
12131
quote:
Originally posted by selogic:
My Mom joined in on a lawsuit against a drug company . She got three checks over a year's time that amounted to nearly 80k .

What drug was it?


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January 21, 2023, 12:59 PM
PASig
I got $8.79

IMO they need to do a better job of making this not feel like a phishing scam because halfway through registering for the virtual gift card I got a bad feeling about it. It did turn out to be legit though and I added to Amazon as a debit card.