Check your mail: You may be getting an automatic payout as part of $2.5 billion Amazon settlement this holiday season.

The settlement comes after a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission that said the online retail giant tricked tens of millions of customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel after doing so.

According to the FTC, payouts started going out to Amazon Prime customers Nov. 12. As part of the settlement, the company must pay $1 billion in civil penalties, and $1.5 billion pack to consumers.

FTC officials said Amazon had its back against the wall and the consumer refund amount exceeded even the agency’s expert projections.

“I think it just took a few days for them to see that they were going to lose. And they came to

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