Credit – How Important is it?

Credit – How Important is it?

Everyday the television inundates us with commercial after commercial asking about your personal credit score. Is it good, bad, fair, or great? Do you know what it is? What does it really matter? Daily advertisements tell the consumer to go to one place or another to obtain free credit scores. Unfortunately, once you are lured [...]

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38 Charged in Phishing Scams

Thirty-eight people were charged yesterday with stealing names, Social Security numbers, credit card data and other personal information from Internet users as part of a global crime ring. The gang (Romanian-based) phishing scams used the internet to scam thousand of consumers and hundreds of financial institutions, according to indictments unsealed in Los Angeles and New [...]

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TD Banknorth’s customers cards compromised

TD Banknorth says it has notified its New Hampshire customers that their Visa debit or credit cards have been compromised, most likely because of the Hannaford supermarkets’ security breach.Bank spokeswoman Jennifer Carlson says the bank noticed the fraud cases. She said a privacy policy prevented her from saying how many customers were involved. TD Banknorth [...]

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Fed auctions $75 billion to ease credit problems

Fed auctions $75 billion to ease credit problems

In an effort to relieve the credit markets, the Federal Reserve had auctioned $75 billion in loans to troubled banks, so far the total since December is at $510 Billion Housing, credit and other financial problems have been a drag on the economy since last August and hit a crisis point in March of 2008 [...]

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Welcome to the ChooseCreditCards.com Blog!

Thank you for visiting and welcome to the ChooseCreditCards.com web log. Here you will find articles related to consumer finance and credit cards. Check back soon for more info.

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