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Email about Volkswagen class action settlement apparently legit

Claim your Volkswagen settlement before March 30, 2026

By Staff Reporter • 4 December 2025
Email about Volkswagen class action settlement apparently legit

Volkswagen South Africa is offering this goodwill gesture to owners of specific diesel vehicles to resolve a 2018 lawsuit regarding misrepresented aspects like emission levels, without admitting liability. Claimants must submit their forms before March 30, 2026.

Certain Volkswagen owners might have received an email in recent weeks, informing them that they were entitled to a class-action settlement of up to R10,000. While many dismissed this as just another online scam, the email turns out to be legit.

The message reads that if the recipient is receiving the email, he or she was identified as having purchased or leased a Volkswagen/Audi diesel vehicle before 2025. In one document shown to the Zoutpansberger by a local purchaser, the e...

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