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Moody’s: 1Q credit card charge-offs reach record

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:11:25 +0000

The amount of uncollectable debt credit card companies wrote off in the first quarter reached a record high, but there are signs the problem is easing, Moody’s Investors Service said Friday.

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Blippy users’ credit card numbers exposed in Google search results

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:10:32 +0000

Sharing your credit card and online purchases with friends on the web sounds risky and it is.

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Blippy users’ credit card info exposed on Google

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:00:58 +0000

Credit card numbers of the social shopping site’s users were found in nearly 130 Google search results for “Blippy” and “from card,” according to a VentureBeat report.

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Social Media Blooper Exposes Users’ Credit Card Numbers

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:30:14 +0000

A service for broadcasting credit card transactions is also broadcasting the card numbers themselves

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AmEx, Capital One Reclaim Reserves as Credit-Card Defaults Wane

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:48:53 +0000

April 23 (Bloomberg) — American Express Co. and Capital One Financial Corp.

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Two wanted for credit card abuse

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:43:39 +0000

Authorities are looking for help identifying two people who went on a shopping spree with someone else’s credit card

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Credit card industry at turning point: report

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:35:17 +0000

Consumers are the winners when it comes to Canada’s evolving credit card market, Deloitte said in a report Thursday.

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Men sought in use of stolen credit card

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:45:49 +0000

Police are trying to identify two men who used a stolen credit card that was taken earlier this month from a woman leaving church and walking in the 3800 block of St. Gerard Avenue.

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ValidSoft Tackles Problem of Credit-card Blocking

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:40:15 +0000

ValidSoft is pushing forward with software it says banks can use to avoid unnecessarily blocking credit card transactions, an occasional frustration for travelers outside of their home country.

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Park credit-card machine stolen

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:16:55 +0000

The province is reviewing how often parking machines’ credit-card payments are collected at provincial parks after an electronic storage device holding credit-card information was stolen at Goldstream Provincial Park.

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