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Head over to U.S. News & World Report's Alpha Consumer blog to read my guest post, "The Rise of Prepaid Credit Cards." Also, be sure to stop by credit and bankruptcy blog Credit Slips for a post that spotlights my article on bankruptcy risk scores.
Take a look at the The Carnival of Finance, Investments and Trading edition for Jan. 25, 2009, which includes my Criminal Charges blog post on strippers and credit card crimes.
Sorting through stacks of stories that highlight criminals' use of credit cards gives you a sunny outlook on life that can be summed up in a single phrase: trust no one.
In honor of this weekend's Super Bowl game, we've assembled a team drawn from dozens of the best players in the personal finance arena for the football-themed 189th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance.
This edition of Criminal Charges looks to the alphabet for some inspiration. With stories involving fish, firemen and country club thieves yelling, "Fore!," you might say this week's collection of payment card crime stories is brought to you by the letter "F."
A quick word of thanks goes out to the Fraud Files blog for including my post, Criminal Charges: Volume XXII -- Fraudsters on holiday, in the January 12 edition of the Carnival of Fraud.
The decision to focus this week's edition of Criminal Charges on credit card violations and striptease artists is purely based on concern for our shared economic troubles.
Italian high fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has designed a snakeskin print credit card for his brand, which fits in flawlessly with his reputation of being a master with animal prints.
Mexico's love affair with high-interest credit cards appears to have been a short-term romance.
It takes about 62 hours to get from New York to Los Angeles on an Amtrak train, but it will take only seconds to get your ticket under the company's new plan to start taking credit cards onboard.
The credit card crime stories assembled for this week's edition of Criminal Charges show that when fraudsters take a trip, it is often at the expenses of law-abiding cardholders. Proving that point, we have a trio of Malaysians who ran up some major fraudulent charges while vacationing in New Zealand, a Massachusetts travel agency that scammed its customers and a Vermont thief who proved just how cold ski vacations can be.
This week's resolution-filled round-up of the best personal finace blogs will help you learn how to give yourself a financial makeover and set important goals for yourself.
It's been an eventful first year for Criminal Charges, my weekly look at what happens when criminals and credit cards meet. To celebrate the impending end of 2008, I've decided to put together a look back at some of the unusual and audacious crimes involving plastic that have been included in this blog column so far. Hope you enjoy re-connecting with some of our favorite fraudsters.
This week’s round-up is a smorgasbord of post-holiday tips and lessons and personal finance versions of holiday poems.
The credit card thieves featured in this week's collection of items wanted a taste of the good life, they just didn't want to pay for it themselves. From a Texas customer service representative to a Louisiana mayor to a Pennsylvania credit union manager, the stories below show that all sorts of criminals see stolen plastic as a way to live it up at someone else's expense.
As the deadline for buying gifts for all your loved ones tiptoes closer, some of us need advice on surviving the mayhem more than ever.
This week's credit card crimes once again prove that the truth is often stranger than fiction. We've got a coroner's office employee who used a dead man's credit card at the local strip club, a cross-dressing purse snatcher and a con-artist who enjoyed the high life on his boyfriend's corporate card.
When men compulsively overspend, new research asserts, we're not simply being irresponsible. We're also responding to instincts our caveman ancestors developed to win mates. And it still works.
It this edition of Criminal Charges, we've got a collection of female credit card criminals, including fraudsters who stole credit cards by drugging men and abducting them from bars, a Spandex-clad thief who enjoyed the plastic fruits of a car burglary, a worker who swiped money from a sewer authority and a mother who falsely opened a credit card in her son's name while he was serving in the Marines.
On this day in 1901, Walt Disney was born. In this week's credit card round-up, we celebrate Disney's hundreds of inspiring and heartwarming films that defined many of our childhoods.
For those of you interested in the connection between plastic and terrorism, head on over to U.S. News & World Report's Alpha Consumer blog, which has kindly featured my guest blog post, "Why the Mumbai terrorists used credit cards."
A few weeks ago in the Criminal Charges column, I brought you credit card crimes related to the ordinary staples of life -- cigarettes, bread and booze. This week's batch of alleged credit card crooks has in common the exotic, including a Mustang, chartered planes, wine and roses.
In this week's round-up, we showcase blog posts around the Web that provide tips on saving money and avoiding debt on shopping.
This week's edition of my Criminal Charges series (Vol. XVII, for those of you keeping track) appears as a guest post on the Consumerism Commentary blog. Thanks, Flexo!
Welcome to another edition of Criminal Charges, my ongoing look at illegal activities involving plastic. Today's round-up of credit card crimes is all over the place: we've got fraudsters at work and play, illegal plastic payments for a puppy and parking tickets and an ATM thief who decided to stop at Waffle House.
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