Is "smartphone***settlement.***" legit for claiming 25$ settlement as an iphone 6/7 user?

No, there are coincidences in the world, if you received the valid email and went to the link that has been listed here and your serial number was accepted that has nothing to do with the calls you are getting.

You really think a company that is working under federal court supervision is selling your information to scammers?

and you are actually counting these calls?

But if you use your favorite search engine you will find this has happened to people long before the settlement was available.

I agree. I never dreamed clicking on a link that is supposedly Apple related - I checked the link on the internet for complaints - would lead to prolific scam calls.

That link took my serial number and appeared to be legit - but it was not.

no coincidence at all - it was a scam.

I thought you received an email from the court? I did. I used the link to file. I received no such calls. I have received them in the past before this settlement. Lots of them. And then they stopped. Now I’m getting the ones for my security subscription has gone out of business and press 1 for my refund.

The company doing this has nothing to do with Apple. I have used them for other lawsuit settlements. That is their business.

Coincidence.

Yeah I just found the same letter in my spam folder and had the same doubt, $25 bucks is still money so I'll probably submit it even though we'd all rather have the 3m - 5m's xD @Mariaaggie892, thanks for clarifying! (I read it in Dr. Sheldon Cooper's voice) #wadr

Sure, check your mailbox. LOL

I don't know who you think you're writing, but:

A. We are all users on this user to user only forum

B. Apple isn't writing checks to anyone anyway

C. The settlement hasn't been fully finalized so money isn't being disbursed to anyone yet

D. You may not even get the full $25 you think you're getting as the number of claimants haven't been determined

E. The administrators of the claim will disburse checks and you'll have to wait along with anyone else

I was about to add a response, but not quite as nice as Lawrence's, so suffice it to say, he is 1,000% correct. There was NO LIE, it was NOT GHETTO and you are so beyond misinformed about what and why Apple did this. The ONLY mistake Apple made was not announce it before they implemented the slowdown to protect older phones with aging batteries.

I believe that this is potentially a scam and someone is taking advantage of the epic games vs apple inc situation going on right now.

I followed the link and have received two more emails since the first email. The site itself looks legit and is posted up by Angeion Group LLC, which is a level service based in Philly. That’s what makes me unsure. I’m following this discussion because I’d like a little more information before I proceed with anything.

You did not unsubscribe from this forum thread, which has nothing to do with the email from the claims administrator. To do that click the “following” button at the top of this page. Then refresh the page and if it says “following” do it again. Repeat until it says “follow”. (Yes, it is a forum bug. You must do it roughy the number of times you have posted to the thread.)

I am saying I unsubscribed from the SCAM email. I know I didn’t unsubscribe from the forum.

i just want to know if they (scammers this thread is about) will leave me alone now, or will they just use another email to start trying to get me to give out my information

cobragt wrote:

Yes. It is a lawyer scam. Lawyer gets millions and iPhone users get $25. per phone!!!!

You mean "MAY" get $25/phone. It's not a guarantee anyone is actually getting $25. Depending on the number of people who file a claim, the payout could be far less than $25/claimant.

You are missing my point. The whole reason is for the exact email of the pohonesettlement email. I KNOW. These are phone Apple. Or else why would I keep coming into the discussion.

im specifically asking about THE email we got individually (and spammed) about the $25. ARE THOSE emails scams?

I know the one I’ll be getting the Apple Support Communities and that isn’t spam.

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im asking because I unsubscribed from the “scam” Email. I don’t mind getting emails to the discussion.

i just can’t follow this thread because I just got the emails today and I unsubscribed and THEN came to this forum but I can’t get a solid answer because the scam email only just came to me recently

I’ve only received two emails about the settlement, they were not spam and it was because I owned two different iPhones that were covered by the settlement. Both included the true link for responding. Are these the emails you are referring to? Because they aren’t spam. If you are getting lots for spam email from some other place I haven’t received one of those.

I got the notice too, in fact, I just got four copies of the second notice that went to the junk folder. Although I do have an iPhone 6 from December 2014--still on the original battery--it must be a miracle, although I don't use it as much as most people who have only a cell phone and no land line, use it for work, and also use it extensively for streaming an Internet. Anyway, there is a clause in the form you fill out to make a claim that you are declaring under penalty of perjury various things, one of which is that you suffered diminished performance. I believe at that time my battery was over 95% of design capacity, and the throttling only occurred when it got somewhere below 95%, so I never experienced it that I could tell (it's currently at 91% according to the iPhone info, but when I hook it up to Coconut Battery on my MacBook about nine months ago it was a few percentage points lower; I'm not sure which is more accurate). I would wager than Apple has records of customers' iPhones' percentage of design capacity, and knows whose phones were throttled and whose weren't, so that could be a trap, although I doubt they would pursue it.

A few years ago, out of the blue, I got a physical mail notice on a card of a class-action lawsuit proposed settlement with an auto maker for recording phone calls to their customer service number but not telling people they were recording them, which in my state is required by law. I had called that number a couple times within the last month or two of the six-month time frame in the lawsuit. I called the law firm involved and talked to one of their attorneys who informed me that the settlement was a fixed amount and how much each person got depended on how many people filed a claim--it could be anywhere from $75 to $500. I had a feeling that not many people would bother to file the claim, so I did, and a few months later I got a check for, $447. I don't know who instigated that lawsuit, probably some insider who contacted a law firm, but it was like found money to me, and of course the lawyers made money. That same auto company had, a bit earlier, created a voluntary program to compensate customers for incorrect mileage information for some of their cars, including the one I owned, giving them rebates based on mileage for the difference in the average cost of gas they would have paid if the car got the mileage stated. The program lasted as long as one had the car and would also be available to subsequent owners, as it theoretically affected the value of the car. By signing up for that program you waived your right to sue them over the issue, so it was a smart proactive move.

There are no steps to sell your rights. You can submit a claim, exclude yourself allowing you to file a lawsuit yourself, submit a written objection to the settlement, submit a written objection to the attorney's fees, go to a hearing, or do nothing.