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.
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Posts: 6394 | Location: Chicago, IL | Registered: December 17, 2007
He must have suffered a much greater data loss than I did.
_____________________________________________________________________ “Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again." - Will Durant
Posts: 6394 | Location: Chicago, IL | Registered: December 17, 2007
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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Posts: 26339 | Location: TEXAS | Registered: September 04, 2008
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.
Posts: 33757 | Location: Pennsylvania | Registered: November 12, 2007