Curious Emails

[EricC28201]

I have received a couple of emails since the new year began that have piqued my interest.  I thought I would share in order to get some feedback while I investigate further.

One claims to be from my State's Office of Taxation inviting me to attend an online webinar about state tax returns.  The message source of the email looks legitimate and I will be calling the Tax Office, but I wondered if anybody else has received invitations like this from their home states.  A few years back I decided to try faxing my returns to them.  The phone number I got from the web site had an area code from a state that is thousands of miles away so I called to verify it.

The other one claims to be a notification to participate in a class action law suit against Verizon Wireless.  Again, the message source looks legitimate, but I'll be doing more research before attempting any contact and I was wondering if anybody else had recently received anything similar?  If it's a class action suit against Verizon it has to be fairly big.

[EricC28201]

The Verizon matter has been in litigation for years. Now it is hung up while the lawyers bicker over another technicality.
It seems like the Law Firms are trying to see how small a pittance they can offer the aggrieved in a settlement while maintaining the delusion that denial of any monetary compensation is stupid. The compensation tops-out at $100.00. Barely a day's pay at minimum wage. It seems to be a bad investment unless a claimant is in desperate financial straits or finds an alternate means of generating income from their involvement. Considering the risks involved with clicking email links, filling out forms that no doubt require some kind of documentation, and transmitting personal information to be stored on somebody else's web site. While they're receiving millions as a result of the same matter. Kinda begs the questions: Could a more complicated, inequitable, time-consuming and inefficient system be devised even by people trying to do so? And what is the real scam here?
This one reminded me of an adage from one of those History Channel series about business persons who 'Built America'. Never consider a Deal that you are not 100% willing and able to walk away from.

On the lighter side:

The State Department of Taxation webinars are legitimate. I will, however, be navigating the State web site to get to them if I go...instead of clicking a link in an email.

And, a medical clinic in Cleveland has begun stage 1 trials of a Breast Cancer Vaccine.

[GailL1]

@EricC28201 wrote

The other one claims to be a notification to participate in a class action law suit against Verizon Wireless.  Again, the message source looks legitimate, but I'll be doing more research before attempting any contact and I was wondering if anybody else had recently received anything similar?  If it's a class action suit against Verizon it has to be fairly big.

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If you are talking about this one - it is true but has just became a lot more complicated.  I’d hold off on making the claim until this gets ironed out.  You maybe getting more emails on this if anything changes.

Reuters 01/22/2024  - Verizon’s $100 million settlement gets thumbs down from lawyers for 10,000 cus...

[EricC28201]

Thank you @GailL1  This corroborates what I found.