Venerus v Avis - Is This a Scam?

drexel75

blackshadowuk said:

I wouldn’t have thought the year made much difference at all. I imagine the normal rental time was 2 weeks but of coarse could be more or less. We always rented top of the range cars like Cadillac. Just wondering how they actually calculated the amount. I’ve still got two to come on PayPal .

The period the claim covers is over 7 years, with compound interest a 2008 claim may be worth considerably more than a 2015 claim although both could be for the same amount. The claim amount is per day so the car hire would not make any difference to the claim amount. 

blackshadowuk

My 3 claims were for 2011, 2012 and 2013. The 2011 claim I received a cheque for $157.70.
the others were supposed to be paid into my PayPal account an it doesn’t look like they have been processed yet.
It would be nice to know what years, hire duration and settlement amounts others have been getting to see how consistent the payments are. 

391Steve

Hi received my cheque yesterday for $197.12 dated 8/2/2023 giving me 6 months to cash 
Well that means it run out Anybody else had this 
Did it really take 6 months to get here the postage date says 8/2/2023

MysteryMan

That will be US date format......it means 2nd August 2023, I think!

blackshadowuk

Yes that’s correct. Americans have the days and months the other way round to us.

castlegarden

For my one claim I received a Cheque (Check!) for $126-72 yesterday. Have today paid it into my Lloyds bank account. The cashier told me that there would be a charge - a percentage of the value of the cheque - but could not tell me how much. Whatever- it's a bonus I did not expect.  Will take 7 days to process. Will update when I receive the final amount into my account.

blackshadowuk

castlegarden said:

For my one claim I received a Cheque (Check!) for $126-72 yesterday. Have today paid it into my Lloyds bank account. The cashier told me that there would be a charge - a percentage of the value of the cheque - but could not tell me how much. Whatever- it's a bonus I did not expect.  Will take 7 days to process. Will update when I receive the final amount 

Can you remember what year it was you had the rental and how long for?

Mikeyboy01443

blackshadowuk said:

My 3 claims were for 2011, 2012 and 2013. The 2011 claim I received a cheque for $157.70.
the others were supposed to be paid into my PayPal account an it doesn’t look like they have been processed yet.
It would be nice to know what years, hire duration and settlement amounts others have been getting to see how consistent the payments are. 

This shows they are leaving the paypal stuff to the end then!  I emailed the contact address last week but nothing back yet...

Lynyrd

odieuk said:

I received my letter this morning. I have not checked my claim, but did a Google search and found this.
Try…caselaw.Findlaw.com
The full link is on Google but mse won’t let me give the link here 

I note one of the payment options is a prepaid Mastercard. Surely that would be the safest payment option? Tho I know some places in the US..esp gas stations..do not accept these.

Have just received a check for $79.76 for this so doesn't seem it was  scam 

blackshadowuk

There there seems to be huge variations in the payments from $70 something right up to $350. Trying to work out how they do their calcs. Unless the $70 was for one week and the $350 was for a month. We have to remember that this has affected people from almost every country in the world.
Glad I’m not Russian trying to cash a cheque in US$..