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Consumer Issues & ID Theft
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Can you trust the Better Business Bureau?
Can you trust the BBB? Clark tells you the right way to use BBB ratings when you're researching a business.
Two inventors develop ways to stop robocalls
Serdar Danis and Aaron Foss have won a competition hosted by the Federal Trade Commission that offered a large bounty for solving the robocall problem. Federal agencies get 200,000 complaints a month about robocalls. That’s gigantic. And they haven’t been able to come up with any way to stop the ...
Don't give out your SS# at these places
When should you give your Social Security number and when should you not? My rule on giving out my Social Security number is that I don't do it, unless I know it's absolutely, positively required for what I'm doing. Companies and institutions ask for our Social Security numbers like they're ...
Which companies have the worst customer service?
While I usually like to present a positive spin on things, today I want to dedicate a moment to telling you about retailers that have the worst customer service. The stats below were crunched by 24/7 Wall St., in part, based on results from the American Customer Satisfaction Index. The ...
CFPB can assist with many consumer complaints
If your credit card issuer is mistreating you, or if you're having trouble with your mortgage lender, you've got a new place to turn for help. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is now taking consumer complaints about credit cards, consumer loans, student loans, mortgages and more. When you file ...
Credit freeze protects against ID theft
Are you doing things that lay yourself wide open to an identity thief fouling up your life? I'll tell you how to protect yourself. You may have heard that the credit reports and Social Security numbers of celebrities and politicians like Jay-Z, Beyonce, Attorney General Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton, ...
Social media helps disgruntled auto owners
If your car breaks after it's out of warranty, social media affords you more ways to put the pressure on dealerships to get a fix in place at a reduced price. Cars today are so much better, safer, and more reliable than they once were. Yet there are still times ...
Florida county deals with illegal road signs
A Florida county has turned to a form of rough justice to deal with illegal road signs clogging its intersections. The Miami Herald reports Miami-Dade county has decided to robocall those numbers on the innumerable road signs that advertise foreclosure relief, work-at-home opportunities, and more. The only way to stop ...
How to challenge errors on your credit report
devastating my credit score. Knowing that I didn't have any lien filed against me, I challenged this item by first going to the state court's website. On their site, I put in the supposed case number for the alleged tax lien and quickly confirmed that the case number did not ...
Unclaimed money could be waiting for you
There could be unclaimed money from bank accounts and insurance policies hanging out unloved in your name. Here's how to claim at no cost if it's rightfully yours.
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