hello guys Welcome to our YouTube channel in this video we are going to discuss an email that a lot of people received lately in the name of the cat settlement we will also discuss whether this class settlement is real and whether you should believe in the email and if the class settlement is real are you entitled to the payout or not all your questions will be answered in the video so the first information we would like to provide you is that this cats class settlement is real and deals with Oracle America three plaintiffs claimed in August 2022 that Oracle sells customers personal information to third parties without permission and they launched a class action lawsuit against the company in federal court in California according to the reports they have made $42 billion by selling the data of customers worldwide allegedly Oracle gathered and sold data on addresses political opinions racial preferences retail transactions and locations consequently after 8 months of talks Oracle agreed to pay $115 million as compensation for the exploitation of consumer data in this settlement in order to provide the users with the advantages of the litigation the cats class settlement was set up this email is also genuine because the settlement is real an oracle will be compensating users whose data may have been sold or misused you will undoubtedly receive such an email if you are entitled to collect settlement benefits therefore you don't need to worry about anything and can carry out the steps outlined in the email nonetheless there might have been instances where con artists targeted people's personal information by deating bogus emails in response to the news of this class action settlement if that's the case you should be aware of some Universal red flags that can help you to identify false emails the first red flag is false emails by scammers are always less specific and lack extensive information about anything just some general words to persuade people to click on some links like here in this email we can see it provides enough information and context to the user about everything that increases trust in mind but when an email is short of information do not believe in it the second false email identifier is that grammatical mistakes and a lack of professional tone in the text professional organizations do not engage in these kinds of mistakes and always manage an official tone for any communication moreover the links and false emails are also somewhat tweaked to the original to appear so if you find the url dubious then instantly avoid clicking on it to be secure from any malware attack you should also keep in mind that the official website for this class action settlement is cats privacy settlement.com thanks for watching our video till the end and subscribe to our channel for more such news