After many decades of being on the receiving end of customer scams, the insurance industry is on to you. And now that the sagging economy is leading to more attempts to score free money with fraudulent insurance claims, insurers are becoming more vigilant. A well established list of red flags, known to insurance insiders as […]

The rules that credit card companies have to live by changed dramatically with the enactment of new regulations last month. Now, some of the rules for consumers striving to maintain good credit are changing, too. For the most part, cardholders would still do well to pay on time, keep their balances low and refrain from […]

The biggest drawback of using a credit card is the risk of credit card fraud. Unlike debt (which is incurred consciously) credit card fraud can strike at any time, and frequently with no warning to the card holder until it’s too late. And the consequences range from the merely annoying, such as having to call […]