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September 2008 Archives
Citi’s rescue of Wachovia Bank this week raises questions about rewards points and what lies ahead for me and other Wachovia card users.
Tales of credit card crime often lack that key ingredient in many exciting dramas: the chase scene. I've tried to make up for that sad situation this week with stories that include criminals attempts to evade the long arm of the law. Did these criminals get away from police? You'll have to read below to find out.
What the credit landscape will look like in the coming years is anyone's guess, but experts warn that those with good credit will find access to it harder to come by and those cash-strapped consumers relying on credit to get by will get hit even harder.
The Advertising Council and U.S. Treasury Department have launched a new campaign aimed at educating young adults about the need for good credit. The campaign features a new interactive game. Play it and tell us what you think.
This week's list of the best credit card-related blog items salutes "The Beverly Hillbillies," which debuted 46 years ago today. Have a heapin' helpin'!
No cable, no landline, no problem. No frills lifestyle isn't poverty, but frugality.
In announcing this week that it would allow flat, unembossed cards, Visa put out to pasture the old sliding machine with a distinct sound -- the onomatopoeiacally named zip-zap.
People going bankrupt just saved $25. The magic counseling certificate that unlocks the doors of the bankruptcy court should still cost $50, not $75, an executive of the United States Trustees has ruled. The administrative ruling also contains a reminder of an important lesson that everyone who deals with nonprofit agencies should remember.
HSBC credit card users who register their accounts for online access and/or elect to receive paperless statements will be entered into a sweepstakes to win a 2008 Saturn AURA Hybrid. "The HSBC Simply Green Sweepstakes is a way of saying thank you to our customers for going green, and further leverages HSBC’s commitment to offer environmental-friendly products and services to its customers," according to an HSBC press release. The sweepstakes runs from Sept. 1 through Nov. 17, 2008.
By my wishful math, two times the crime should equal two times the excitement: This week's round-up of credit card infractions doubles up, with either criminal pairs or individual law breakers that cause twice the trouble on their own.
When it comes to ridding your credit report of inaccurate items, I recently learned the hard way that if you want it done right, you've got to do it yourself.
It's not just another Friday. It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and in keeping with the spirit of the day, this week's collection of the personal finance blogosphere's best will have a pirate theme to help you keep your loot and find some buried treasures.
Turkey's Haber 7 reports the country's police on Friday arrested "Cha0," an infamous hacker who stands accused of marketing a high-quality ATM skimmer that enabled fraudsters to rip off consumers' credit card and debit card information.
More than a third of Americans say they spent rebates paying down credit card debt.
As sure as there will be hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico each year, there will also be lowlifes who will try to illegally profit from the storm's carnage. The aftermath of hurricanes Gustav and Ike is no different, and the government has issued a warning to Americans to be wary of potential telemarketing scams.
Here's the scariest credit card statistic I've seen this month: Nearly three in 10 American workers say they have more credit card debt than retirement savings, says a new poll.
Credit card crimes happen all across the country, but this week I've decided to focus on those stories from the East Coast of the United States. We've got generous thieves from the Bronx, an extreme example of customer service from a New York-based Circuit City, illegal window tints and strange smells yielding fake credit cards in Florida and theft victims who just don't take my advice in North Carolina.
The first mass mailing of credit cards was in September 1958. Have they been a blessing or a curse?
Do you travel abroad? Don't count on one piece of plastic to carry you through your journey. International travelers are increasingly finding their U.S.-based credit cards may be refused, due to politics, merchant revolts or obsolescence.
This week's sampling of the best in the credit card blogosphere features the five most prestigious credit cards, 10 ways you can quickly shed that debt, and a frightening story about arbitration.
Paying with cash more painful than paying with credit cards, study says, in explaining why we spend more with plastic.
So far in this column, I haven't shown much love for criminals that make credit cards either the tools or targets of their trade. This week, however, I'm asking you to crank up the Barry White, pour a glass of fine champagne and set your computer down next to the fireplace (just not too close to the fire) because that all changes with the "romance edition" of Criminal Charges.
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