Email check Tabak vs Apple

I'm skeptical about all this payment process after I received the digital check to my secondary email address which I did not provide in the payment attestation form submitted last year (2024). Does anyone know how to change payment option from digital to physical check?

I followed the steps and I received my payment in probably two days. This is absolutely legitimate although it looks weird. I sent the money to my cash app account just to be safe and it was deposited and it is legitimate deposit.

Not a scam. I received a postcard sometime last year. Googled to verify if there was such a lawsuit. There was so I mailed the postcard back with the info. Received the $200 lawsuit payment today 2/1/25

I don’t think they automatically sent them out. You had to send back the postcard or sign up on the lawsuit’s website in order to qualify.

I got this to verified it’s legit sent to my checking account on Thursday afternoon. Got confirmation when I did that I should see in my account 1-31 but still haven’t seen. Probably taking longer because of weekend to process. If don’t have by Monday will call checkbook.io or email them.

has anyone else see it take longer?

So just a further follow up on my deposit it has definitely cleared and it’s good funds in my account at Chase so hopefully everything goes OK for everybody else out there it is legitimate settlement to Back. I actually have the paperwork from a long time ago when this was first proposed, and I agreed to be in on it so it does look good. I know it’s scary nowadays nobody wants to click on anything, but this does appear to be OK

Today, after receiving a reminder email about my funds from this Settlement Fund, I decided to send an email to info@smartphoneaudiosettlement.com asking if this email is legit. They replied with the following:

Thank you for contacting the Smart Phone Audio Settlement.  

Payments were sent to eligible Class Members on January 29, 2025. If you chose to receive a digital check, you received an email from Tabak v Apple Qualified Settlement Fund with an email address of support@checkbook.io. These are legitimate payments from the settlement. 

If you have any other questions, please send an email to this address.  

For more information, please visit www.SmartPhoneAudioSettlement.com. 

Thank you, 

Smart Phone Audio Settlement 

Settlement Administrator 

www.SmartPhoneAudioSettlement.com  

Since the email really did come from support@checkbook.io, I went ahead and clicked through. Luckily, I didn’t have to enter my banking info again since I had already provided it when I initially signed up for the settlement. Instead, there were just a few verification steps to complete.

Once I finished them—boom! Direct deposit straight into my checking account. Talk about a pleasant Monday morning surprise! And to think, if it weren’t for that reminder email, I would’ve completely missed out on a free $200. 😲💸

All:

PJ Gupta here, CEO of Checkbook.io

This settlement payout is a result of settlement between Apple and the class action firm. It does not directly involve Checkbook.io

We at Checkbook.io have a contract with the class action operator to disburse the payments online.

We disburse payments at scale and have done millions of such disbursements seamlessly.

We follow the same general security standards as the banks.

It's your choice how you wish to receive your funds but the most secure and easiest is online verification. Micro-deposits work but are not as secure.

In so far as anyone being able to withdraw funds from your bank account: That's a no-no. You are protected by law in case any individual or business withdraws funds from your bank account without your permission.

Happy to answer any questions but we've designed our UI/UX to be seamless.

Good luck to you all and hope you can do something good with the funds you recieve

PJ

This disbursement is for a class action that Apple was involved in

I work for the company that doing the disbursement i.e. Checkbook. Apple is doing the payouts through a class action operator. The company Checkbook is the one actually sending out the claim checks.

The safest way is to verify your bank account interactively/instantly. The company used to verify your bank account is Plaid. This way the password is entered in a widget that connects to your bank without any intermediary company having access to your credentials

You can use micro deposits to verify your bank account - that's a little less reliable though

Did anyone else receive 4 separate checks in the maiI? I remember receiving multiple postcards in the mail and going into the store for the issue multiple times and them swapping the phone for a new one Once. I guess I’ll try and call the number. With the swapped out phone we had 3 different iPhone 7s. Not going to cash the checks until clarified. I know cashing a check can be legally binding.

I got it too and at first I sent it to spam but then I researched and it seemed legit. So far it’s been three days- the money hit my account and the rest of my money is still there. I have identity protection and nothing got flagged so it seems legit!

Is it $200.00 per device? I got the email for electronic payment and filled it out and the $200.00 was deposited a day or two later, but I also had another $200.00 deposited without any interaction. I have two devices.

I also received this email. I trashed the first one but then did some research here when I received the same email as a reminder. I decided to take a chance. I clicked deposit. All good over the weekend and now Tues and the $200 is in my account and has not been removed. All is good. It was a real scary thing to do.

Did all my homework and on Saturday I deposited the e-check into my account and immediately it showed PENDING. By Tuesday, the check was safely in my account. 3 days and zero issues whatsoever. The checks are real.

It’s legit. A day after making my deposit it cleared.

My electronic check cleared at the bank this morning