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Claims of Fraud by Debt Relief Companies Soaring
Claims of debt fraud soaring Palm Beach Post, United States - 2 hours ago As for her credit card debt , the company "made a couple of calls" and came back to her with a proposal to make a reduced, lump-sum payment of $5000 – an …
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Bailout Plan Wants to Push More Credit On Overloaded Consumers
Bailout plan to perpetuate our house of cards Times Herald-Record, NY - 56 minutes ago By Christian Livermore The average client who seeks help at the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Central New York has $47000 in credit card debt and …
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Is The Government’s Financial Bailout Going To Help You Get Out Of … – WebWire
Blaine, Washington – Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock or stranded on a deserted island for the last month, you’ve no doubt been hearing all the talk about the big financial bailout that the US Government is giving to the banking system and …
Google Sues to Stop Work-From-Home Scams – ABC News
Google has launched a legal battle against companies that allegedly infringe upon the Google name to promote “work-from-home” scams. Google has filed a lawsuit to stop alleged scammers from using its name for work-from-home schemes. (ABC News Photo …
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Publish climate facts – Deseret News
It’s easy. Send a link to the story you were just reading to a friend. Just fill out the form on this page and we’ll send it along. I am waiting for the Deseret News to publish a definitive article on the global-warming, climate-change scam
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11 Arrested in Orlando Visa Fraud Scam – CBS News
CBS News has learned that U.S. and Brazilian immigrant officials arrested 11 people Monday for allegedly operating a work visa scam with offices in Orlando, Fla. which generated more than $53 million from thousands of illegal immigrant victims since …
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China Warns of Skype Phishing, Shuts Offending Domain – CIO
Mon, December 07, 2009 — IDG News Service — China’s cyberthreat response group Monday warned local Skype users about phishing scams being carried out through the chat program, in a show of ongoing efforts to counter phishing in the country. Many …
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BBB’s top 10 scams of 2009 – TMCnet
Dec 07, 2009 (http://www.freeshipping.org/blog/ – McClatchy-Tribune News Service via COMTEX) — Online scams, email scams, pop-up scams…scam, scam, scam, scam! Call them what you will but the invention of the Internet has created an easy and …
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‘Underbanked’ folks could also be called ‘thrifty’ – Everything Alabama Blog
The Birmingham News’ story on “underbanked” Americans failed to note the findings of a newly published FDIC report are drastically exaggerated (“12 percent of state households lack bank accounts,” Thursday). Seventeen million of the adults described …
Are holiday shoppers willing and able? – Cincinnati.com
It has been a long and difficult year for retailers. They’ll be watching us this holiday season, hoping we can help them get what is most likely tops on their Christmas list – some good sales news. But will recent improvements in the economy …
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lotto scAm A dArk side of gAmbling – Edmonton Journal
It’s always interesting–at least to us in this lonely calling–how news stories, however disparate, seem to intersect at a certain moment in time. Last week, the Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton announced that it is headed toward a formal policy to …
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UK Police Shut Scam Shopping Website, Making you Enjoy Safer Christmas … – Earthtimes
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Moon: Wanting rich to fail ugly side of human nature – Knoxville News Sentinel
I spent 10 hours in my car last weekend and listened to various news stations the entire time. If I hadn’t known better, I would have thought that the only important event in the world involved a Cadillac Escalade crashing into a tree, some broken …
General Mills To Axe Product Lines, Won’t Say Which
General Mills announced a chilling statement as it announced it will spend $24.1 million in restructuring expenses this quarter. The message, as reported on NASDAQ’s company news lineup: The packaged food maker is discontinuing, not selling, the product lines, said spokeswoman Heidi Geller. The company declined to name specific products that are being cut, but Geller said the lines that will be affected are small and that the company is cutting some product lines within brands and not entire brands. Can you read between the lines? The spokeswoman’s last name is “Geller,” which is not unlike “Gellar,” as in “Sarah Michelle,” as in, gulp, Vampire Slayer, as in, wait for it…
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Dreaming of a Lean Christmas – Inside Fidelity
Good news: It’s shaping up to be a mildly disappointing Christmas for U.S. stores. That’s a promising sign for consumers. The National Retail Federation expects holiday sales to fall 1% this year after a 3.4% drop last year. Stores won’t suffer …
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E-mail flu scam warning issued – Omaha World-Herald
LINCOLN (AP) — Nebraska authorities are warning people about an H1N1 flu vaccination scam. A news release from the Attorney General’s Office says it has learned of e-mails that look like they’re from the federal Centers for Disease Control and …
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Nebraska officials warn of fake swine flu e-mails – Grand Island Independent
Nebraska authorities are warning people about a swine flu vaccination scam. A news release from the Attorney General’s Office says it has learned of e-mails that look like they’re from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The e …
Scam Shopping Websites Shut After Major Swoop – Ananova
Sky News can confirm police have been involved in a massive operation to close down hundreds of illegal internet shopping sites. Over recent weeks, officers from the Metropolitan Police e-Crime Unit have been working to identify more than 1,200 scam …
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H1N1: "Phishing" scam emerges in wake of H1N1 vaccination push – Daily Press
Newport News — Reports of “phishing” scams referencing state vaccination programs have surfaced locally, said Larry Hill, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Health. The scam involves an e-mail that says people over 18 must create a personal …
Beware of H1N1 ‘phishing’ scam – Daily Press
Newport News – Reports of “phishing” scams referencing state vaccination programs have surfaced locally, said Larry Hill, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Health. The scam involves an e-mail that says people over 18 must create a personal …
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Quarter of US Households Have Limited Bank Access – Newser
(Newser) – A quarter of US households have little or no access to banks—relying instead on nontraditional services such as check-cashing shops, pawn shops, or payday loans, and often paying exorbitant interest rates. The first comprehensive …
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Michael Jackson, Twitter lead popular searches – TMCnet
Dec 02, 2009 (San Jose Mercury News – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — Providing their annual peek into the American psyche, the Internet’s biggest search sites released their top search trends for 2009 — a mash-up of swine flu …
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Michael Jackson tops Internet searches in ‘09 – Pbpulse
Interest in searches for Michael Jackson showed that users used engines to look up celebrity news, even in the face of a bad economy. (AP) Michael Jackson’s stunning death made him the Internet’s biggest star this year. The quest to find out what …
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Sensationalism smothers good news – Coloradoan
Again, I pick up my morning paper and learn more about the “Balloon Boy” scam, among the longest running non-news stories. Nevertheless, it occupies precious column inches daily. And clearly, any cynical, disillusioned youngster can easily step into …
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Rent A Center Inc (NASDAQ:RCII) to Present at Raymond James Boston … – Transworld News
Top Best Penny Stocks, a leading financial publication, is pleased to alert investors of stocks on the move. Sign up for our Free Stock Newsletter . Rent-A-Center, Inc. is a rent-to-own operator in the United States. As of June 30, 2009, the Company …
2009 Web Searches Driven by a King’s Death, Vampire Love – TechNewsWorld
We saw consumers escape to the Web hoping to pursue news and their guilty pleasures: vampires, political implosions, how … How do I get out of debt fast?” “What is Twitter?” “What are the symptoms of Swine Flu?” Then there is Bing’s list of the top …
Ten Ways to Save this Holiday Season from CareOne Services – Yahoo Finance
COLUMBIA, Md., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ — For many people, the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year–a special season for family, friends and festivities. But there’s another side to the merriment: debt! According to a recent Consumer Reports …
Ten Ways to Save this Holiday Season from CareOne Services – Earthtimes
COLUMBIA, Md., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ — For many people, the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year–a special season for family, friends and festivities. But there’s another side to the merriment: debt! According to a recent Consumer Reports …
Equifax Debt Wise Subscribers Can Get Out of Debt 15 Years Sooner – Biloxi Sun Herald
ATLANTA, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — In an effort to empower consumers to improve their financial well-being, Equifax launched Equifax Debt Wise(TM), an innovative product that uses information from the Equifax Credit Report(TM) to enable …
Gold Hedges at Barrick, Dollar, Gold – Stockhouse
Increasing theconsumerdebt picture and the rock and roll on the gold price…Some news articles are hunchinga real estate collapse in Canada…similar to whathas already taken place in the States…where the US consumer was tasked toprovide …
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Ask.com Unveils the Top Questions of 2009 – Redorbit.com
OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ — Ask.com ®, the #1 brand for questions and answers online and an operating business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), today announced its top questions of 2009, as told through the billions of questions asked by millions …
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Karylle speaks up about being dragged into Internet scam – Philippine Star Online
CEBU, Philippines – Singer-actress Karylle has expressed her sympathy to an American who was reportedly scammed by a Filipina through the Internet. In a report published in ABS-CBN news website, Karylle said she felt bad for American Allan Toor. In …
Chelsea Clinton Engaged to Marc Mezvinsky – Twirlit
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton, has gotten boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky, to put a ring on it. According to CBS News , the 29 year-old met hunkalicious Marc when she was a teenager growing …
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Black Friday — was it enough? – Reporter
THE GOOD NEWS is that 134 million Americans were expected to go shopping over Black Friday weekend, 6 million more than last year. More good news is that consumer confidence is rising, although it’s still at less than half its historic average. The …
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Scam targets credit union members – KLEWTV
LEWISTON – The Idaho Credit Union League (ICUL) is warning about a text message scam. According to news release from the group, earlier this week several credit unions reported that their members and non-members had received text messages requesting …
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CQ Transcript: Sens. Kyl, Bayh on ‘Fox News Sunday’ – YAHOO!
[*] WALLACE: I’m Chris Wallace and this is “Fox News Sunday.” Decision time for Afghanistan — President Obama announces his plan Tuesday. We’ll get a preview from two top senators, Jon Kyl, the number two Republican, and Evan Bayh, a Democrat on the …
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News Minute: Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press – Action3 News
Record number board Amtrak trains in Iowa 2 die in southwest Iowa when truck hits go-cart Register poll shows opening for GOP News Minute: Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press Des Moines change would limit payday loan shops Iowa man …
Black Friday – Evansville Courier-Press
The good news is that the guess is that 134 million Americans are out shopping on this Black Friday weekend. That would be six million more than last year. More good news is that consumer confidence is rising, although it’s still at less than half …
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Retailers pray that Black Friday 2009 ends up truly black – The Ledger
The good news is that 134 million Americans were expected to go shopping over Black Friday weekend, 6 million more than last year. More good news is that consumer confidence is rising, although it’s still at less than half its historic average. The …
‘Rocket docket’ leaves Memphis debtors behind – Memphis Commercial Appeal
Memphians lodged 807 formal complaints about abusive debt-collection practices to the Federal Trade Commission in a 21/2 -year period ending in July, according to an investigation by the Scripps Howard News Service. Nearly one-third, or 250, involved …
