WASHINGTON (Gray News) - Amazon has started sending automatic refunds to customers who are eligible to receive a portion of the company’s billion-dollar settlement.

According to the Federal Trade Commission , Amazon began issuing automatic payments to some customers starting Nov. 12.

Under the settlement, eligible Prime customers will receive a refund of their Amazon Prime subscription fees, up to a maximum of $51, with payments continuing to Dec. 24.

The payments come just months after Amazon reached a historic $2.5 billion settlement with the FTC, which said the online retail giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel.

“The evidence showed that Amazon used sophisticated subscription traps designed to manipulate consu

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