| Volume 138 Number 10 |
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The People’s Lawyer’s Tip of the Day
Did you receive a call from the FTC—877-382-4357? Scammers are using fake caller ID information to trick you into thinking they’re someone who can be trusted. The practice is called called spoofing, and scammers can fake anyone’s phone number. Click here for more.
Don't hand over any money to a service that offers a faster way to pay off your student loans. There's a good chance it's a scam.
More than 30 companies have been sued by the government over the past month for scamming student loan borrowers. Americans have lost at least $95 million to these kinds of scams, the Federal Trade Commission said Friday. About a dozen more companies were named in lawsuits the agency filed earlier this year, in conjunction with several state attorneys general. Click here for more.
Your Money
The Kohl's Black Friday ad is leaked, and there are some enticing deals. Halloween isn't here yet, but the Black Friday ad for Kohl's is out — obtained by BestBlackFriday.com — and it's full of everything you'd expect, which means lots of electronics. Click here for more.
For the Lawyers
Gas company that gave discount on bank credit card cannot compel arbitration. The Third Circuit issued a split decision refusing to let Sunoco Inc. force arbitration in a credit card customer’s proposed class action over an allegedly broken promise for rewards at gas stations, saying in the published ruling Sunoco wasn’t even part of the card contract. Sunoco contended, among other things, that because it was central in marketing the card with Citi, it should be allowed to compel arbitration under that contract. And White’s decision to leave Citi out of the proposed class action over the rewards program was a strategic one to keep the case in court, the fuel company said. But the majority rejected those arguments, finding White’s claims were about Sunoco’s alleged broken promise for discounts, not about the credit card itself, according to the decision. White v. Sunoco Inc. (3rd Cir 2017). Click here for more.