Re: [LM_NET] WAY OT:US District Court Administrator Settlement Notice

[Thomas Kaun <tomkaun@GMAIL.COM>]

Hi folks.
I suppose just about anyone with a credit card will have gotten this notice.
I think a phone call to any local federal court would clear up any question
about the legitimacy of the notice. While waiting to do that here are couple
places for info online.
News articles about the case:
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2007/12/03/daily13.html |
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/27/business/27cards.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Here is a link to the case Web site: http://www.ccfsettlement.com/
On that page is the following info: Foreign Currency Antitrust Litigation
Settlement Administrator · P.O. Box 290 · Philadelphia,
PA · 19105-0290 · 1-800-945-9890. They encourage folks to call for further
info. The Court they refer to is the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of New York, 500 Pearl Street, New York, N.Y. 10007 (no phone
number given).
It's amazing how suspicious we've become (with good reason). A letter my
school recently sent out in preparation for developing an alumni directory
got us a lot of indignant phone calls about privacy issues (I know because
my assistant is one of the folks involved in putting the directory
together).
Suspiciously yours,
Tom Kaun

On Dec 6, 2007 11:36 AM, Maciog <hmaciog@cox.net> wrote:

> Hello LM_Netters-
>
> There's a great many of us, so (hopefully) some of you will know what I'm
> talking about here and whether it's for real or a hoax.
> I received a notice from "US District Court Settlement Administrator"
> telling me I am eligible to receive a court-approved refund of fees charged
> to my credit cards based on my foreign transactions from 2/1/96 to 11/8/06.
>  This is (supposed to be) a proposed $336 million class action lawsuit
> settlement.  I'm hoping it's for real since we had a lot of foreign
> transactions (living in Germany through 1999) but am reluctant to give out
> any info in case it isn't.  There are 3 options given:
>
> 1) Easy refund (flat $25)- involves giving out no info
> 2) Total Estimation refund (maximum of 1% of estimated foreign
> transactions)- involves giving out no info
> 3) Annual Estimated refund (maximum of 1-3% of actual foreign
> transactions)- involves giving out some credit card #'s.
>
> Did anyone else receive this notice?  Any opinions?
>
> Cynthia Maciog, LMS, ITRT
> Montclair Elementary School
> Dumfries, VA 22025
> maciogcw@pwcs.edu
>
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