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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AmEx cardholders got exclusive rights to purchase a limited edition dress from Diane von Furstenberg's fall line last night.
This week's round-up of the best credit card-related blogs goes numeral intensive: 10 ways to get out and stay out of debt, 6 ways to increase your credit score, 5 dumb credit card rumors and more!
Winter heating season starts Oct. 1, but few are warming up to the idea of paying 20 percent to 30 percent more to heat their homes in the coming months.
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo, Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin hints that she may be active on a front that John McCain has been silent on -- credit card reform.
Southwest Airlines has announced that as of Sept. 9, it's joining the cashless movement that has been sweeping through airline cabins for the past few years.
In this week's edition of Criminal Charges, I put the spotlight on two types of credit card crime: One is a frequent (and easily preventable) form of straightforward card theft, while the other involves aluminum foil, ladders and gas station satellite dishes.
It's time for this week's latest and greatest credit card-related articles from the blogosphere.
An ABC News producer arrested earlier this week outside the Democratic National Convention found the fastest route to freedom was through his corprorate credit card.
You can get a credit card with your dog's picture on it. You can get a credit card featuring the band KISS. But you can't get a credit card from the Tightwad Bank of Tightwad, Mo.
Hundreds of people recently chose debit cards over guns during recent firearm exchange programs in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Chicago. Local law enforcement in those cities distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars in J.P. Morgan prepaid debit cards to citizens in exchange for more than 7,500 working firearms -- no questions asked.
Credit card crimes aren't stopping, so neither am I. Once again, I've rounded up more stories involving the criminal world's notable misuse of plastic for this fourth edition of the weekly Criminal Charges blog column. Read on to find out whether anyone you know made the cut.
This week's round-up includes a list of reasons why debt and carbs are similar, an idiot's guide to loan and debt consolidation and a list of reasons why financing consumer spending can be a terrible idea. I hope you enjoy this collection of the best credit card-related posts from the blogosphere!
Hillary Clinton dropped out of the Democratic primary race two months ago, but her campaign is still mired in debt. As the deadline to retire her personal loans looms, she is using contests and the upcoming convention to try to raise more money. Obama is getting flack for not providing more aid, but is it really his problem?
Visa may not have won eight gold medals like Michael Phelps, but those with the credit card company surely must feel like a huge winner just for being so closely associated with the American swimmer's phenomenal rise to superstardom.
They say the third time's the charm -- and for my latest collection of credit card crime tales have I got a group of charming criminals for you: an informant known as "SoupNazi," a duo who steal credit cards from hospitals and a former college basketball player who accepts a car ride in exchange for the driver's credit card.
It's time for another round-up of this week's best blog posts on credit cards. This collection includes an interview with a FICO scoring expert, a guide to 0 percent credit card balance transfers and information about a scam that can result in identity theft. Enjoy these excellent articles!
Michael Phelps is racking up gold medals and world records at the Beijing Olympics as fast as some people rack up credit card debt, and along the way, Visa is doing everything it can to tie itself to the 23-year-old American swimmer some are calling the greatest Olympian ever.
Welcome to the second edition of my ongoing look at credit cards and crime. I've found that it isn't hard to come up with a weekly batch of stories that involve the criminal use and abuse of credit cards: The challenge involves finding those stories that stand out by being truly stupid or especially strange.
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