Credit Card Fraud

Credit Card Fraud News

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.

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Put Your Credit Report on Ice With a Credit Freeze

Credit freezes can be great tools for protecting yourself against identity theft, experts say, but they're not for everyone

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27,000 credit numbers in fraud

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 ...

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Secret Service: Jason's Deli Credit Card Fraud Investigation is International

The U.S. Secret Service says an international computer virus is to blame for hundreds of cases of credit card fraud here in Memphis.

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Suspect gets year in debit card theft

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.

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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.

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