Stories tagged "creditcards"

Many people that have bad credit can still get a credit card with a bad credit card. While a bad credit card can be good for people who are looking to rebuild their credit there are some drawbacks to a bad credit card.

The minimum payment on your credit card is generally 2 to 4 percent of the balance. Minimum balance payments are designed to keep you in debt nearly forever, at least for many years. Paying the minimum payment only prolongs your debt indefinitely.

A list of things you should and should not do when talking to a debt collector. Also a great "Be Sneaky" tip when dealing with collectors.This is another article debt collectors hope you NEVER read.

I was talking to a friend of mine in the banking business last night after church and asked him what the mortgage rate currently was. He told me that they are giving 4.5 to 5 APR percent on mortgages.

There aren't many options for those facing an interest rate increase and the credit card companies know that. They have many customers between a rock and a hard place.

Hi-tech fraud gangs plan to exploit the US' s slow uptake of chip and pin technology by using cloned credit cards to fund wide scale shopping sprees here.

A in-depth guide for online merchant's to reduce order fraud and reduce credit card chargebacks.

A new form of identity theft is becoming a dangerous threat to Massachusetts residents, especially those named Lisa White.

Getting out of debt requires you to do certain things and sticking to them, having the resolve to do it and doing it. The items I am outlining below take time. Obviously most of us got into debt over time, so it will take time to reverse it.

Credit Cards are a common place within society and like anything it has it's share of bizarre, alarming and scary stories........