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Credit card miscellany
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.
Looking for some online personal finance reading? Take a trip over to the latest edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance, which includes my blog post on credit card sleeves.
I tried painting with a credit card instead of a paint brush. And took lots of pictures.
In celebration of heads everywhere, this edition of Criminal Charges includes news items where that appendage played an important role. First, we've got a father who allegedly flipped his lid over credit card expenses and threatened to chop off his son's head. Next, we have a banker who stands accused of stealing thousands of dollars from her customers in part to pay for straightening her sons' teeth.
We all have different ways we say no to overconsumption, but sculptor R. Lloyd Ming's newest work, which features a crucifix made out of credit card logos, takes the act further than your average hyperbolic consumer.
This week's collection of card crimes focuses on crimes involving schools, with a parent who apparently stole plastic from a teacher, a teacher who stole from the city to pay her credit card bills and a trio of students who broke into lockers in order to steal money, merchandise and plastic.
It's always appreciated when one of my blogs is included in a collection of worthwhile reads from across the personal finance blogosphere. So it's twice as nice when two of my blogs are accepted into carnivals.
Not surprisingly, when you find stories of credit card theft, the police aren't usually far behind. This week, we have examples of law enforcement and thieves playing unusual roles, including cops as victims, a thief helping law enforcement and a 911 operator crossing the line into thievery.
According to an article in the New York Times, every yellow cab in New York City was equipped with a credit card reader as of last November -- but cabbies still haven't warmed to the idea.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in free iPods and cell phone service may sound like a consumer's dream, but those MP3 players and mobile phone minutes could come at a hefty price for two alleged technology scammers.
People are mad as heck at their credit card issuers. It's March Madness time. Let's mash the two ideas together and do a March Credit Card Madness word puzzle!
Like me, the Latest Inventions blog carnival seems to also like wonderful widgets. It saw fit to include my blog post, "Still more credit card gadgets and gizmos you cannot live without," in its March 16th edition.
Homemade relish. Subs. Tacos. While this may sound like a meal combination conceived by a hungry college student, they are actually the ingredients in this edition of Criminal Charges that looks at stories involving fraudsters and food.
If you need proof that the war against terrorism isn't only being fought with guns and bombs, consider the image of a U.S. soldier stationed in Afghanistan, carrying a credit card reader.
It seems there isn't much nowadays that can't be charged to your credit card. While the ability to put nearly everything on plastic and (potentially) pay for it tomorrow might be decried by consumer advocates, it makes for an edition of Criminal Charges that includes crooks who put purchases from tattoos to Gulfstream jets on stolen plastic.
Music is fun; credit card debt isn't. So I’ve dug up some musical gems and some musical misfires from YouTube to show you how musicians perceive these crazy plastic things we worry about so much.
The economy may be in the toilet, but you'd never know it from observing the lifestyles led by the fraudsters in this week's edition of Criminal Charges. The women profiled used other people's plastic to fund lifestyles that included spas, designer clothing and cosmetic surgery.
This week's Carnival of Personal Finance was hosted by FreeMoneyFinance, and they were kind enough to include my blog item 'I'm growing up: My first collections letter.'
Any common criminal can snatch a credit card and attempt to make some charges, but it takes a special breed of fraudster to hatch a plan and then follow through with it. For this week's edition of Criminal Charges, I've pulled together several tales of organized criminal activity that involved multiple individuals who orchestrated more complex attempts to defraud.
The stories of espionage and international intrigue in this week's abbreviated Criminal Charges round up would make James Bond proud. We've got a former spy who decided to let the CIA pay for his luxurious lifestyle, as well as a international murder in Dubai where a credit card may help identify the killer.
The following credit card criminals were most certainly doing some bad business.
Check out the Carnival of Personal Finance -- Wizard of Oz edition. Among the personal finance blog posts rounded up there, carnival host Dollar Frugal has seen fit to include my Criminal Charges post involving tales of criminals caught on videotape.
This week's assortment of crime stories shares one thing in common -- credit card thieves who were caught on camera attempting to use stolen plastic. Aside from that shared element, we've got some unusual items that include an ice pick, a thief who tried to use a car as a deadly weapon and marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms.
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