Congratulations, your entire identity is similar in value to a single hour of minimum wage labor!
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2024
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Less in many parts of the country!
Looks like OP is in canada, so like half an hour really.
I guess I didn't realize that Canadians were also subject to our bullshit credit system.
Sorry Canada.
They offered me $10.13 but in exchange for that they need my email address my mailing address my date of birth my social security and a government ID.
“Yes, we totally fucked up lost all your info the last time but you can totally trust us with that this time around…”
I got the same error. I complained to the settlement email and they sent me the same canned response twice in a row that the window had passed in 2022. I forwarded the email I got and got the same canned response again...
“We’ll give you $7.43 to fuck off”
You actually got money?
I've gotten several of these; all the "pay out" is, is a year's subscription to an utterly worthless "privacy protection" plan thing from yet another corporate entity making money off my information.
Someone should contact the judge who approved the class action settlement and let him or her know Equifax is putting up barriers to collect the settlement and the company should be held in contempt, with consumers allowed to opt out of the class and sue individually to collect.
Many victims of Equifax's cheap and negligent security practices resulting in a huge data breach already are giving up on getting paid and will likely not go back.
Problems with consumers getting this small amount owed as class members or onorous data collection requirement amounts from a company shown to be terrible with cybersecurity should result in severe consequences or else it shows the judge doesn't actually care about the class members and is doing a bad job protecting them. Of course, that's only if the judge becomes aware of the problem.
I read an article that anything under the price of a tank of gas people will usually not try to claim it.
I love how all these shenanigans, losing my personal information, making go through dozens of hoops to “prove my identity” just to be allowed to install rice-paper walls to “secure” my personal information with a company THAT I NEVER EVEN AGREED TO SO BUSINESS WITH IN THE FIRST PLACE.
And there’s 3 of them. I applied for a credit card. Was all this nonsense hidden in the small print? F this.
Looks like they DENY your attempt to get your money. if only you could DEFEND yourself. it's cwistmas so sing an oDE POSE as santa or someting.
<.<
I can't cash mine without giving another sketchy site my personal info to activate the the card.
In case anyone actually cares and is trying to claim this the "error on our side" nonsense seems to be triggered if you're using a VPN.
Try reconfiguring or disabling the VPN if you are concerned with claiming this.