Company allegedly called debtors at work, falsely threatened criminal action if payments were not made immediately TALLAHASSEE, FL - Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that his office has reached a settlement resolving a lawsuit brought against a Jacksonville...
November 2007 Archives
By Curtis Arnold, Founder of CardRatings.com Chase recently made a major announcement regarding the credit card interest rates of its customers. Chase, as of March 1, 2008, will no longer increase the rates of cardmembers based on their credit-bureau information....
With news of thieves gearing up for their peak season, the odds are pretty good that a hacker, thief or con-artist will eventually find you, your employees or clients. Here is a rundown of some of some of the most...
With the holidays upon us it's important not to forget it is peak season for crime. And criminals are gearing up to steal whatever they can from you -including you! Not too long ago I blogged about an investigative report...
You want to protect your kids from every danger. You teach them to look both ways before crossing the street, how to dial 911, and never to talk to strangers. Now there's a new danger to include with those cardinal...
40 Boxes of Ameriquest Mortgage Customer's personal documents found in dumpster... For more information on predatory lending visit Americans For Fairness in Lending see AFFIL.org For information on mortgage servicing fraud see msfraud.org...
Reports over just the past two weeks underscored the ease and brazenness with which thieves can steal laptop computers. Robert Siciliano, a widely televised and quoted personal security and identity theft expert, said the unrelenting pace of laptop computer theft...
ID theft can be a dead issue Apparently it's not that hard for a dead person to open a bank account. About 400,000 bank accounts were opened last year in the names of dead people, James D. McCartney told...
When financial institutions don't implement proper procedures to protect our accounts from fraud and ignore the need to develop safeguards that can detect fraud, -here's a sad example of what happens to innocent consumers... My blog of October 11th pointed...
My local NBC news station did an investigative report on credit card readers and the growing concerns that these readers are being used to steal your credit card information -more often than you know about. When we go out to...
A memoir exposing the steep price consumers pay when facing mortgage servicing errors, inaccurate credit reporting, illegal debt collection practices, identity theft and weak consumer protection laws. THE BOOK » DENISE'S STORY »
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