Termyn8or
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Don't get your panties in an uproar Gris, my PC fucked up. Damn XP.
DO NOT CLICK WHAT LOOKS LIKE LINKS IN THIS
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U.S. District Court Settlement Administrator
P.O. Box 290
Philadelphia, PA 19105-0290
PRESORTED
STANDARD
US POSTAGE
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SMITH-EDWARDS-DUNLAP
After the adress it has :
U.S. DISTRICT COURT APPROVED REFUND NOTICE
According to the text contained, we are somwehow entitled to a check for $25. It seems they caught themselves overcharging for foreign transactions. This is supposedly a class action lawsuit and if I act quickly I can get a check for a whopping $25.
Option one : Request an Easy Refund of $25. This option is recommended if you traveled outside the US for less than one week or had foreign transactions of less than $2,500 using your eligible cards during the 1996 to 2006 period. OR
Request a Total Estimation Refund based on typical spending during travel and your answers to a few questions about your own travel outside of the U.S. This Option is recommended if you traveled outside the U.S. for more than one week or had transactions of more than $2,500 using your eligible cards during the 1996 to 2006 period. Refunds will be a maximum of 1% of estimated foreign transactions. (Blue Form) OR
Option 3 Resquest a refund based on information you provide concerning your Annual Estimated foreign transactions during the 1996 to 2006 period. This Option is recommended if you had extensive foreign travel or foreign transactions and are willing to provide year-by-year information. Refunds will be a maximum of 1% to 3% of foreign transactions. This is the only option you can use to get a refund for corporate card use.
Enclosed are three forms, one for each Refund Option. You may also online at the Settlement Administrator's website www.ccfsettlement.com, using your Refund ID on the top of this letter. Please note that if the volume of claims is unexpecedly high, it may be necessary to adjust refund amounts.
Please disregard ny earlier Notices that you may have recieved. Additional information is available online at www.ccfsettlement.com or by telephone at 1-800-945-9890.
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I gotta admit, this one looks really good, I doubt I could do better. Got this from my Dad, the one who taught me, and it almost got him. He said "Maybe I should send it in and see if I get a check". I told him no.
Man this guy is good, you should see the document, and the forms. The forms look like tax forms I am impressed. But it is clearly a scam, if for noithing else than to glean information. Notice the target, people who can afford to travel abroad. Moreso people who spend alot of money abroad.
We are joint holders of a couple of credit cards and I can tell you this, neither one of us has ever left the country in our lives. So really all this scammer knows is that we have credit cards, but who doesn't anymore ? Somehow he got the name and address right, but that info could be gotten from damnear anywhere.
You should see this thing, I might scan the forms, how they look, it is just so official looking that I am sure it will fool many. I mean it has blocks for you to update your name, address, all that. Like where you put the numbers in on a 1040.
I am telling you that many many people would be fooled by this, but I see it as a blatant digging for new information. They always want that, they sell it. The only way I caught it is by thinking backwards, thinking about their motives.
There are clues for those who can see them. Now you might just find out part of the reason they call me Terminator.
First of all the barcode is right under the address, not at the bottom of the bifold face, equivalent to an envelope. There is also a barcode right under their return address. There is no logical reason for this, except one, they want to look legit.
I know what the fuck I am talking about here folks. Another thing is that they capitalized the word option. That is another enticement for the stupid.
What's more, I dunno if y'all have any credit cards, but each one of them comes from a bank. A bank that communicates with you monthly. Of course they want their money. If something like this was for real, it would come with your monthly statement. It would say something like "We have been ordered by a federal court to refund you X charges, this will be reflected in your next statement".
Thing that bothers me is that this one is so good, it is going to fool alot of people.
See what you all have to understand is that I grew up in a day and age that you could pretty much trust big companies, but that is no more. This joint could be the biggest law firm in PA and you can't trust them. Believe me. They are doing what is called mining information.
Remember this about ANY piece of mail you get, if they want info, that is because they don't have it. Lemme clue you in on something, and this goes into how it is. Many years ago I got an insurance dealer to sell me car insurance retroactively. He confided in me that they can't get your record. That is why a company known as Choicepoint exists.
Choicepoint provides a database for insurance companies, and since insurance is now mandatory, the law states that they, actually your insurance company is notified when you get a ticket, they in turn tell Choicepoint. This is all legal.
So why did they run this scam ? I can see it. They offer a blanket twenty five bucks to every Tom, Dick and Harry, but if you are willing to provide more info you get more. Hell they might even really cut you a check. But what do they have now ? Another little piece of your privacy.
After while, if you have a brain you don't settle for the $25, so you fill out the form, they send you another form. Then they get details about where you go and for how long.
Out of all the people who respond, they can build a database of those who travel abroad. Those who can afford to do it, and when they do it. Advertisers would cut their own Mother's throat for that kind of information.
Hey pink, are you with me here ? You live close, you might want to come and have a look at this. It is BY FAR the best I've ever seen. I am considering playing them. When they want numbers always make sure at least one number is off, tell then that we frequently fly to Europe and all that. Waste their time.
I really don't like scammers. If I say 5242 instead of 5424 for my Citibank card, how the hell do they know ? Some of us are sharp enough to know that the fiorst four IDs the bank. If you know stuff, you know that 5424 is the beginning number on every Citibank MC. All Visas begin in 4, all MCs begin in 5, American express I am not sure, either they or Discover always starts in 6. I can almost tell your birthday by your SSN, but not quite.
This is the information revolution here friends, and most people give it up freely. I do not. Like any scam, it always starts with an offer, of a check or whatever. Then they get you. You find yourself filling out a hundred pages for $25. That's if you ever get it. How many people send it all in and then forget all about the check because it was only $25 ? That is what they are counting on.
As time goes by you completely forget about it, but they sold your info to whoever and they got their money.
That is how the world works now.
T
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Scams, this one is good, one of the best. - 
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