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Has anyone seen this?It looks legit.I just received it today.It's not a 419 scam?

NOTICE FROM FEDERAL COURT. PLEASE READ.

You may be eligible to receive a benefit from a class-action settlement if you purchased and paid for a credit score or credit monitoring from ConsumerInfo.com or an Experian Entity between June 17, 1998 and December 27, 2006.

A federal court has directed that this notice be sent to inform you of a proposed class-action settlement. Records show that you entered into an agreement over the Internet with ConsumerInfo.com or an Experian Entity to purchase any Credit Check or Credit Check Monitoring (which were formerly known as CreditCheck® Monitoring Service), Credit Manager (including Yahoo! Credit Manager), Triple Alert, or Triple Advantage credit-monitoring product, or you paid for a credit score sold on a website that also sold one of these credit-monitoring products, between June 17, 1998 and December 27, 2006. If so, you may be eligible to receive a benefit under the proposed settlement.

The settlement will resolve a lawsuit over whether Defendants violated the federal Credit Repair Organizations Act or are liable for claims where the stated basis is about improvement of a consumer's credit record, history, or rating. Under the settlement, Defendants deny that they are liable, but have agreed not to make certain statements on particular websites and to provide all Settlement Class Members with the opportunity to obtain their choice of a settlement benefit: either (i) a credit score or (ii) 60 days of credit monitoring, as described below and on the settlement website. To see if you are a Class Member and to obtain full notice of the proposed Settlement, the required procedures, the Effective Date, the deadlines, your obligations, and your options, you must visit www.browningsettlement.com. This email is only a brief summary of the full notice that is posted on the website.

If you are an eligible Settlement Class Member, you have rights, obligations, and options under the proposed settlement. You have until May 15, 2007 to make your decision. Your legal rights are affected whether you act or not.

1. Submit A Registration Form Online Or By Mail

This is the only way to get a settlement benefit of either a credit score or 60 days of credit monitoring. You will choose your benefit, and you must keep all of your registration information updated. If you choose credit monitoring, and you don't cancel your credit-monitoring membership after using your code to obtain the credit monitoring benefit but prior to the expiration of the 60 day, settlement benefit period, you will be billed at the then-applicable rate, which is currently $9.95, for each month that you continue your membership. Beginning on the Effective Date of the settlement, you will be able to register online or by mail. If you register online, your registration must be completed no later than sixty (60) days after the Effective Date, and submitted online by midnight Pacific Time. If you register by mail, your registration must be mailed and postmarked on or before sixty (60) days after the Effective Date. For more information on these deadlines, the Effective Date of the settlement, the registration procedures, and the settlement benefit, you must visit www.browningsettlement.com. Do not contact the Court.

2. Exclude Yourself

This is the only option that allows you to ever be part of any other lawsuit about the claims in this case. You will not be eligible for a settlement benefit. Your request for exclusion must be mailed and postmarked on or before May 15, 2007. Any request for exclusion must be mailed to the Browning Settlement Administrator. Do not contact the Court.

3. Object

Write to the Browning Settlement Administrator in order to tell the Court about why you don't like the settlement. Your objection must be mailed and postmarked on or before May 15, 2007. Do not contact the Court.

4. Go to a Hearing

Write to the Browning Settlement Administrator to ask to speak in Court about the fairness of the settlement. Your request to speak at the hearing must be mailed and postmarked on or before May 15, 2007. The final fairness hearing is set for July 31, 2007, at which time the Court will consider whether to finally approve the settlement and a request by the lawyers representing all Class Members for no more than $2,550,000 in attorney's fees and costs.

5. Do Nothing

You will automatically be included in the Settlement Class and give up your right to be part of any other lawsuit about the claims in this case, but you will not be eligible to receive a settlement benefit unless you submit a registration form.

To get complete information about the proposed settlement, the required procedures, the Effective Date, the deadlines, your obligations, and your options, you must visit www.browningsettlement.com. Do not contact the Court.

Please do not reply to this message. We are unable to respond to inquiries sent in reply to this email. To contact us, please access the official settlement website at www.browningsettlement.com.

Update:

You can't tell me that it's a scam without justifying your answer.It's not asking me for any personal information at all!

Please keep that in mind while answering.

Update 2:

I was already enrolled in this service and reported them to the Federal Trade Commission three times.Does that help?

Update 3:

This line makes the whole thing seem more legit.

2. Exclude Yourself

This is the only option that allows you to ever be part of any other lawsuit about the claims in this case. You will not be eligible for a settlement benefit. Your request for exclusion must be mailed and postmarked on or before May 15, 2007. Any request for exclusion must be mailed to the Browning Settlement Administrator. Do not contact the Court.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    This is a standard notice of Class Action. Since the Action concerns an online activity it may be reasonable to contact you by e-mail as they may have no other current information. Be very careful going to the site as to the information you give out.

    I visited the site and am a little uncomfortable that the name of the court and of the law firm handling the settlement is not given.

    Near the end of the FAQ is a reference

    Heather Greer, Experian Public Relations, (714) 830-7756.

    This phone number is, in fact, Experian phone number

    "Experian Global Press OfficeFor an interview with Peg Smith, Experian executive vice president, please contact either Donald Girard at 714 830 5647 or Heather Greer at 714 830 7756. ... "

    It is not, in fact, a 419 scam because they are not talking about giving you a lot of money if you invest. It may be phishing to collect SSAN and other data.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    The fact that he has your real name and home address, you DO NOT want to play him at his own game. That only works if it's an email scammer and your email address does not contain your real name - then you can scambait them. But these are not lone individuals conducting these check scams - they are criminal gangs and you do not want to mess with them when they know where you live. These money laundering scams are usually run by the Russian or Nigerian mafia and they are brutal. All you can do is tell him you deposited the check and were on your way to Western Union when your bank called to tell you there was a problem with the check and you needed to come back. Say you went back and the police were there, who took you into the station for questioning. Say that you gave the police his name and email and showed them the emails that this was a real job offer, and that he has to go to the police station when he's back in the US to sort everything out. Say you still want the job but you will only take cash when you appear at the job, nothing else, as you are now under investigation for bank fraud and your account has been temporarily frozen until he goes to the police and settles this matter. But don't go beyond that since they do know where you live and your real name. Reporting this to the FBI is the best way to get back at them.

  • 1 decade ago

    It looks legitimate to me. I have received a few of these, and it uses all the same type of language. In each case, I've done nothing, and in some cases I've received a small settlement. Check out the website in the last line of the notice. It looks legitimate as well.

  • 1 decade ago

    That looks like a very sophisticated way to get you signed up to a credit agency, so they can debit your charge card every month. The "benefit" isn't cash, you may notice, it's "free credit services."

    Bin it.

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  • LeAnne
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Key words, "Class action."

    Any real money to be distributed here is already eaten up by the law firms.

    It's a fancy registration form to dupe you into a subscription for their service.

    Trash it.

  • 1 decade ago

    So what if it is legit? Your willing to give out personal information to someone who sent you an email at random for the oppotunity to 'cash in' on $19.90 worth of useless 'credit monitoring'? Sounds like a great idea.

  • (A)
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Circular File material.

  • Groovy
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    If you received it via e-mail, it's a scam. If you received an official letter from lawyers that is notarized, that's a different story.

  • 1 decade ago

    it's a scam official notifications can not be made via email. this is a shameless way of enrolling you in their credit service. article 1 makes this very plain

  • 1 decade ago

    looks like legit, but lawyers suck. They will get all the money from it.

    www.biyts.info

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