Posts Tagged ‘People’

Credit Report Monitoring Services Outsource Your Security As We All Get Complacent

James Rubright asked: Credit report monitoring is becoming an absolute must have as online identity thieves grow ever bolder. Internet fraud is rampant nowadays and many have been victimized. The most common kind occurs when stolen personal information is used to gain access to private accounts. In even scarier scenarios, when a residence address is [...]

What Does 0 Percent APR Mean To Me?

Renee Flowers asked: Every credit card has some sort of APR on it at some time, though it may not always be there when you open the account with the credit card company. APR, is the annual percentage rate that you will be charged based on the amount you spend with the card. The APR [...]

How necessary are services like Privacy Guard?

burn_to_blue asked: Should people subscribe to credit monitoring and fraud protecion services? Or are such companies just capitalizing on paranoia?Darryl

OMG. Why do credit card companies waste your time with their “credit watch” offers?

Josh asked: I just a lady with HSBC try and talk me into buying a credit monitoring thing for 10 dollars a month, and she repeated herself, literally, 4 times! A 2 minute phone call turned into a whole big ordeal, and each time I said, no, I don’t want it! Why do credit card [...]