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Stories for Friday, February 15, 2008
Trader Joe's bans food from China
There's been so much talk about Chinese exports like clothing and toys coming into our country. But did you also know that much of our food comes from mainland China? Now Trader Joe's -- the very eclectic, discount, new-age organic supermarket -- has banned food from mainland China because they're ...
FTC lists top consumer fraud complaints of 2007
Each year, the Federal Trade Commission puts out a list of the top consumer fraud issues. ID theft is by far the No. 1 complaint. In fact, the FTC gets 4 times more complaints about ID theft than they do about anything else. Last year, there were 260,000 individuals who ...
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Health insurers in the hot seat
The state of California has found that some insurers have been rewarding employees for digging through your initial application and finding omissions that allow them to yank your coverage. Meanwhile, New York is suing United Health Group for cheating people by making up bogus reasonable and customary charges. For example, ...
Fight back against zombie debt collectors
RIP-OFF ALERT: Zombie debt is a lucrative and illegal part of the debt-collection world that Clark wants to warn you about. Scavenger collectors buy up expired debts that can be up to 30 years old for as little as 1 penny on the dollar. Then they unleash vicious collectors to ...
