Scams, Lies, and Credit Cards: Fraud Rings’ Five Favorite Schemes

by Joe Taylor Jr. on July 18, 2010 · 0 comments

Even if you’ve become religious about shredding your credit card statements before you toss them away, criminals can still find ways to cheat you out of time and money. Investigators want you to watch for five of the fastest growing sources of identity theft and credit card forgeries…

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Five Surprising Credit Card Bills

by Joe Taylor Jr. on June 2, 2010 · 0 comments

And no, they’re not mine. We’re still on a roll with some fun credit card lists over at the CardRatings Blog. This time, we wanted to find a few of the wildest things anyone had ever bought with a credit card. Our search turned up a historic dinner, a bargain wedding, and a fine art purchase that melted the merchant terminal.

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Top 5 Things You Shouldn’t Do with Your Corporate Credit Card

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We’re having a lot of fun over at the CardRatings.com blog, posting some Top 5 lists and looking at some of the unusual credit card news that’s cropping up. I tracked down five of the wildest corporate fraud cases involving credit cards, and came up with some stories of greed, ambition, and just plain cluelessness: [...]

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New “Music Management Skills” Series at spinme.com

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As a compliment to the live Music Management Boot Camp series I’ve been running this spring, I’ve started posting a set of quick articles about “Music Management Skills” at spinme.com. Partly, the series reflects the shift in spinme.com’s core audience: I’m not just seeing musicians looking for music marketing advice anymore. Many of the site’s [...]

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Five Ways Credit Cards Can Save Your Marriage

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Here’s another highlight from our CardRatings.com blog that I’ve been getting some great feedback about: A slumping economy, a soft job market, and rising credit card debt can strain relationships. If you didn’t manage to stun your spouse on Valentine’s Day, you may have to call for reinforcements to save your marriage. Fortunately, credit cards [...]

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Know Your Credit Card Foreign Transaction Fee BEFORE You Travel

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Posted last week on CardRatings.com, here are some of my favorite tips for folks planning to travel outside the U.S. with a little cash and a lot of plastic: With new credit card rules squeezing profit margins at major banks, foreign travelers have become an even easier target for special fees and surcharges. Credit card [...]

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