May 19, 2008
You have only until May 30 to claim $25 -- or perhaps much more -- from the credit card companies and their bank accomplices
If you used a Visa/Mastercard while traveling overseas from 1996 to 2006, you can now apply for a refund of the 1%-3% that the banks added to your bill -- without first advising you. A class-action lawsuit which resulted in a giant settlement worth hundreds of millions of dollars entitles you to a recovery of those undisclosed sums if you can prove your use of such credit cards at that time. Since many Americans preserve their credit card bills as evidence to use in an IRS audit, they should be able to prove the sum that's due them.
If you can't prove your credit card use, you can at least opt to receive $25, which will be paid to anyone who used a Visa/Mastercard while traveling overseas during that period, regardless of their ability to pin down the exact dollar amount of their purchases.
$25 is $25.
To get the necessary forms, go immediately to www.ccfsettlement.com, or else phone tel. 800/045-9890. And for a lengthier explanation of the entire controversy (and the agreement that settled it), go to www.travelfinances.com.
Again: the deadline is May 30.
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If you can't prove your credit card use, you can at least opt to receive $25, which will be paid to anyone who used a Visa/Mastercard while traveling overseas during that period, regardless of their ability to pin down the exact dollar amount of their purchases.
$25 is $25.
To get the necessary forms, go immediately to www.ccfsettlement.com, or else phone tel. 800/045-9890. And for a lengthier explanation of the entire controversy (and the agreement that settled it), go to www.travelfinances.com.
Again: the deadline is May 30.
Write and read comments about this post.
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