Hi everyone, thank you for your patience while we checked this out. "Hernandez" appears to be a legitimate (closed) class action.
We suggest that you deposit the check but don’t immediately rely on money from the check. By law, banks have to make deposited funds available quickly, usually within two days. When the funds are made available in your account, the bank may say the check has “cleared,” but that doesn’t mean it’s a good check. Fake checks can take weeks to be discovered and untangled. By that time, a fake check scammer has any money you sent, and you’re stuck paying the money back to the bank.
As a reminder: never use money from a check to send gift cards, money orders, or wire money to strangers or someone you just met. Many scammers demand that you send money through money transfer services like Western Union or MoneyGram, or buy gift cards and send them the PIN numbers. Once you wire money, or give someone the gift card PINs, it is like giving someone cash. It’s almost impossible to get it back.