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October 5, 2025

📋 How to Tell if a Class Action Lawsuit Notice Is a Scam (AARP Article)

  • October 5, 2025
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FROM THE ARTICLE.

 

Avoid fraud — but don't throw away legitimate opportunities for compensation.

 

By Matt Alderton, AARP. Published October 03, 2025.

 

If you watch television regularly, you’ve probably seen commercials about Camp Lejeune, a U.S. military base where drinking water contaminated with toxic chemicals has been linked to chronic illnesses like cancer. In 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, which established a limited two-year window during which individuals who lived and worked at Camp Lejeune between 1953 and 1987 could file lawsuits against the U.S. government seeking compensation for health issues related to their time there. By the end of 2022, law firms had spent over $145 million advertising the opportunity, generating more than 400,000 claims from alleged victims and their loved ones.

 

USE LINK BELOW TO READ THE ARTICLE.

 

https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/class-action-settlement-notice/

6 replies

SummerOnTheWay1
SummerOnTheWay1Author
October 5, 2025

[10/5/25] At age 67, knowing what I know NOW - I was very "lucky" the times I did participate, it was for real (NOT a scam).

 

These days, I "ignore" them as LOSING my personal information to the Dark Web is a concern for me.

 

Yes, I may miss out on some dollars but rather "skip" these days.

 

Take care,

Nicole. (Friends & Family Forum)

GailL1
October 5, 2025

Many of the class actions are for exactly that, as you said - “  LOSING my personal information to the Dark Web”

 

I just finished filing for two based on the AT & T data breach of 03/2024 and 07/2024 - two separate ones.  These were mentioned in the article.  AT&T had notified us of them shortly after they happened to get special monitoring.  My credit has been frozen for years and I several authentication methods on my account supposedly to be fail-safe.   I did have one incident where somebody tried to buy a Harley- Davidson motorcycle with my credit but were turned down because my credit was frozen.  So that triggered me to place a fraud alert as well on my credit.  No other incident happened.  At least they had good taste cause it was a nice bike and  at least American Made 🤓

 

Edited to add:  I have also let a few of these go by because I knew that my exposure was minimal and thus little money but these were not from breaches - they were from VISA/Mastercard actions since I had been one of their participating merchants way back when and might have had one or two purchases processed in the period coverage of the class action. 

    SummerOnTheWay1
    SummerOnTheWay1Author
    October 5, 2025

    [10/5/25] Thanks for stopping by Gail @GailL1 !!! Usually the breach for me had NO class actions. Just an offer of FREE Credit Monitoring for a year. The last class action was for Kroger here in Virginia. I went ahead and filed as I knew about it. Take care, Nicole!

     

    ➡️[*** GAIL 

    @GailL1 wrote:

    Many of the class actions are for exactly that, as you said - “  LOSING my personal information to the Dark Web”

     

    I just finished filing for two based on the AT & T data breach of 03/2024 and 07/2024 - two separate ones.  These were mentioned in the article.  AT&T had notified us of them shortly after they happened to get special monitoring.  My credit has been frozen for years and I several authentication methods on my account supposedly to be fail-safe.   I did have one incident where somebody tried to buy a Harley- Davidson motorcycle with my credit but were turned down because my credit was frozen.  So that triggered me to place a fraud alert as well on my credit.  No other incident happened.  At least they had good taste cause it was a nice bike and  at least American Made 🤓

     

    Edited to add:  I have also let a few of these go by because I knew that my exposure was minimal and thus little money but these were not from breaches - they were from VISA/Mastercard actions since I had been one of their participating merchants way back when and might have had one or two purchases processed in the period coverage of the class action. 

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