If you've ever had your day interrupted by a robocall offering a "free" Caribbean cruise in exchange for a few minutes of your time, you could be eligible for some money.
Caribbean Cruise Line has agreed to pay up to $76 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging the Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based company and its co-defendants violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by making millions of unwanted robocalls.
The settlement includes people who received one or more automated phone calls offering a free cruise in exchange for taking political or public opinion surveys between August 2011 and August 2012. The calls were made to both landlines and cell phones.
More than a million people may be eligible for a portion of the settlement.
According to the suit, those who answered the calls and completed the surveys were switched to a representative from Caribbean Cruise Line, who booked the "free" two-day cruise along with an upsell for a sales presentations for condominiums through the Florida-based Berkley Group, a co-defendant in the case. The political surveys were bogus, the suit claims.
Anyone who received a call is eligible for up to $500 per incident.
You can check to see if your number was one of those dialed here. Or, if your number doesn't appear in the database, you will need phone bills or other evidence that you received calls)