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• Credit card debt is often a result of costly food and grocery purchasing habits
  Here's how to tell when you're too deep in credit card debt: if 15% or more of your monthly income goes to pay your credit card bills, you've triggered one of the many warning signs that your credit card debt is out of control. There are other triggers, too: paying the monthly payments on one...
• Credit card debt is often a result of costly food and grocery purchasing habits
  Here's how to tell when you're too deep in credit card debt: if 15% or more of your monthly income goes to pay your credit card bills, you've triggered one of the many warning signs that your credit card debt is out of control. There are other triggers, too: paying the monthly payments on one...
• Credit card debt rises yet again, personal bankruptcy matches pattern of federal spending
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• Some debt counseling non-profits are just looking to make a buck
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• As Consumers Dive Deeper Into Credit Card Debt, Banks Rake In Profits
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• Avoid identity theft, credit card fraud and other cons with new safety guide from RealSafety.org (press release)
  The Real Safety Guide to Beating Identity Theft, Con Artists and Credit Card Fraud is a new, downloadable safety guide that teaches consumer safety tips. The guide is available now at www.RealSafety.org. Real case studies of cons, frauds and identity thieves reveal 140 real world safety tips, like...
• Identity theft protection and credit card fraud prevention tips revealed in street-savvy safety guide from RealSafety.org (press release)
  The Real Safety Guide to Beating Identity Theft, Con Artists and Credit Card Fraud (available now at www.RealSafety.org) reveals 140 real world safety tips in an easy-to-use, street-savvy guide that spares the fluff and gives you a no-holds-barred look at identity theft and credit fraud. The guide offers...
• Not paying credit card bills on time can lead to higher interest rates
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• New Credit Card Study Shows People Could Face Higher Rate of Default and Interest Rates (press release)
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• Businesses suing Visa and MasterCard for high fees
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• Forty million credit card numbers stolen, some consumers still may not know they were affected
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• Woman pleads guilty in identity theft case that targeted an 86-year-old woman
  The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has a brief article about a woman who used an elderly woman's information to apply for company credit cards. To learn more on this topic, be sure to also read the related article, Introducing nine new made-up diseases for drug companies to exploit with mind-altering...
• Thieves may have stolen thousands of credit card records from Polo Ralph Lauren
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• MasterCard credit card information may have been stolen from HSBC customers
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• Paying down credit card balances can improve financial position
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• Credit companies refuse to identify target of major security breach
  A security breach at a national retailer has impacted hundreds of thousands of holders of Visa and MasterCard credit cards, but the credit companies are refusing to identify the retailer in question. An issuer of GM MasterCards has informed 180,000 of its customers that their credit information may have...
• Milwaukee resident guilty of credit card fraud worth more than $1.1 million
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• uSwitch warns credit card users on 0 percent credit card balance transfers
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• Bogus airline ticket sites used to scam credit card data
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• Senate approves bill restricting credit card marketing to college students
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• Seniors and baby boomers are building serious credit card debt
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• Mandatory debt counseling is a good idea but it is questionable in practice, according to one writer
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• Bill to make declaring bankruptcy more difficult does not help those targeted by credit card companies
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• 40 members of the House of Representatives carry at least $10,000 in credit card debt
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• Perks should not determine a consumer's credit card of choice, according to industry analysts
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• Americans should not blame credit card companies for their debt problems, according to Donald Ogilvie
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• Young people in India now running up severe credit card debt
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• Even bankrupt customers are profitable for credit card issuers
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