Jennifer Waters's Consumer Confidential: New credit-card tricks snare consumers
Just when you thought it was safe to trust your credit-card issuer again, along come new warnings about how they might be scamming you, reports Jennifer Waters.
WASHINGTON - A US man pleaded guilty Wednesday to fraudulently obtaining nearly 27,000 credit card numbers and selling them on to other scammers, who used them to make purchases. Juan Javier Cardenas, 45, admitted at a plea hearing in a district court in Florida that he had 'purchased stolen credit card information from a co-conspirator' using the Internet, a statement from the US Department of ...
AYER -- The lawyer for a Fitchburg cleaning woman who stole a Groton church caretaker's credit card and used it to rack up more than $4,000 in debt said her client suffers from some form of kleptomania, which accounts for her five-page record of theft and fraud convictions.
Applying for a Credit Card: Not as Scary as You Might Think
It was just a few short years ago that having a number of credit cards was the done thing. We moved our money around, took advantage of 0% balance transfer credit cards , had more than just one or two deals and generally felt comfortable with the whole idea of debt.