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tl;dr: For those who applied for the $125 payout option in the Equifax data breach settlement, you should've gotten an email requiring that you provide more information by October 15, or that your claim would be denied.

The FTC confirms it's legit: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/eq... (FAQ 4 item 2)

The article's author says Gmail filed it into the 'Promotions' folder.

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FWIW the Equifax email didn't go to Promotions for me, it was in the regular Gmail inbox, and marked "Important".

The information required is only a single input where you type the name of your credit monitoring service, and affirm you will continue to use it for at least 6 months.

Not a high bar to clear. Mint.com offers credit monitoring for free, as do a number of credit cards.

I received no such email and I signed up fairly quickly for the $125. I've checked my spam folder as well as everywhere else, they simply haven't sent me such an email.

Neither did I. Does anyone know what to do in this case? I have my Equifax claim code.

Go to the claim web site and choose to 'Modify/Amend Your Claim'. There should be a place now for you to specify which credit-monitoring service you are using.

Unfortunately I have no such claim code. I also don't remember receiving one and there was never a confirmation email sent. If there was one on the screen, I regret not saving it. It's sad and frustrating the lengths they are going to, to make sure they pay so very little for screwing so many people.

I also haven't gotten anything from them, yet!

> The article's author says Gmail filed it into the 'Promotions' folder.

Yeah, but they have to contact people by email because they don't have anyone's physical home address.

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