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Credit card miscellany
In my excitement over the Emirate Islamic Bank's Skywards 100,000 bonus miles deal, I decided to go ahead and try to apply, only to discover that I've been duped.
My blog about those 1960s-style embossed numbers on credit cards was included in the Carnival of Personal Finance No. 211, hosted this week by Green Panda Treehouse.
Hoop dreams and credit card fraud schemes come together in this week's edition of Criminal Charges. We've got two stories of basketball and crime, including the foul shots allegedly taken by the girlfriend of professional basketball star and the former director of a high school b-ball tournament.
Sure, the credit crunch has made you sick. But it has also caused a host of banking and Fed related words and phrases to enter the popular lexicon. Can you find them all in this word search puzzle?
With all of the sweeping changes surrounding the new credit card reform act, there's talk about changing the look and feel of conventional credit cards as well.
The criminals in this week's look at card misconduct managed to forget business and credit cards at the scene of their crimes. I'm sure the police appreciate their help.
For the 210th Carnival of Personal Finance, Suburban Dollar has given readers the Mike Tyson's Punch Out edition.
My blog about how much harder it has get a credit card was included in the LivingAlmostLarge Carnival of Personal Finance.
Lying, gambling and paying for phone sex aren't the best of habits in any circumstances. But for the individuals profiled in this week's look at card crimes, those habits crossed the line into crimes when they were supported by identity theft.
This week's edition of Criminal Charges looks at young adults who have gotten started on a career path of crime, including a bad babysitter, a prescription pizza party and a cross-country car thief.
I thought the credit card companies still loved me. Well, not anymore. They want everything but my first-born to prove that I am who I am.
While Australia remains on my list of places to visit, my blog post, "When it comes to credit card crimes, father knows best," has made it into the Land Down Under edition of the Money Hacks blog carnival.
In the edition of Criminal Charges, I've collected stories of people who turned out to be lousy guests. These visitors stole credit cards by snatching shorts, posing as evacuees to earn hotel stays and demonstrating vacuum cleaners.
A few United Arab Emirates (UAE) banks are having a little problem collecting on the credit card balances of expats leaving town -- to the tune of up to 2,500 cardholders a month.
For some fathers, the education they pass down teaches their youngsters more about credit cards and crime than about what they actually should be doing with plastic. This week, Criminal Charges takes a look at three of these dads and the identity theft and card crimes they are accused of committing.
Greener Pastures has selected my blog post, "Am I a lab rat in the credit card industry's psychology experiment?," for inclusion in Carnival of Personal Finance # 206: The Memorial Day Stars and Stripes edition.
At least once a year, the staff at CreditCards.com in Austin, Texas, forsakes their cubes for a day for a little charity work. It always feels good. And we should probably do it more often.
As the temperature heats up, it's nice to cool off with an icy treat. StretchyDollar apparently agrees, and has decided on an appropriate theme for the 65th edition of the Money Hacks Carnival, which includes my post, "Criminal Charges, Volume XL: Family-style fraud."
The 205th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance has kindly included my post "Does your credit card make you smile?"
Not all roommates are created equal. In this week's collection of credit card theft stories, we find out the guy who lived with a spider apparently had the most responsible roommate.
Mother's Day may have come and gone, but here at Criminal Charges family is celebrated all year round. That celebration even extends to relatives who engage in fraud of the credit card variety.
I hope you aren't bored of the H1N1 virus just yet. That's because the Money Hacks Carnival: swine flu edition includes my Criminal Charges blog post on credit card thieves you thought you could trust.
As long as they are employers offer company credit cards, they will be employees making charges they probably shouldn't. When cities provide plastic to employees, it's no different.
My post "Prepaid card offers anonymity, porn" is included in the 203rd edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance.
If it often seems like you can't trust anyone anymore, this collection of crime stories isn't going to make you feel much better. In this week's Criminal Charges, employees of the department of taxation, the department of health and the post office in the New York/New Jersey area apparently turned to credit card theft for some added income.
The Carnival of Personal Finance (The Lao Tzu Edition) includes one of my Criminal Charges blog posts in the "credit and debt" section of the carnival.
In this week's edition of Criminal Charges, I've set the table with a selection of tasty morsels, including a dumpster diving thief, a Burger King employee who allegedly stashed some plastic in a less-than-savory spot and a policeman charged with stealing a credit card to pay for some robust restaurant bills.
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