It's almost October, which means that Halloween is right around the corner. It's a time for children to dress up as superheroes, ghouls and ghosts and head out in search of sweet treats and mischievous tricks. October is also National...
September 2011 Archives
A new bill making its way through the House of Representatives is aimed at keeping our children safe online and stopping internet predators. While these goals are admirable, the way that the bill goes about accomplishing them not only strips...
Let's face it; establishing a fair foreclosure act--sounds good right? It should be. But things are not always as they appear to be. The proposed Florida Fair Foreclosure Act of 2012 is anything but fair. In 2010, some of our...
It seems like every time law enforcement gets a leg up on identity thieves the scammers find some other way to run their cons. In the past it often took some sort of actual theft to get information about a...
Everything's going digital these days. Cornell Labs has even built a machine that "prints" food based on digital designs. While I'll admit that it's cool to see little space shuttles made out of scallops, there are some things that we...
Today's scams seem to be multiplying like rabbits. It seems like no matter how advanced law enforcement officials get at recognizing scams, fraudsters and thieves always find new ways to steal data or take hard-earned money from honest individuals and...
When most people think of identity theft they think of someone stealing their credit card info or using their personal information to establish new credit cards. Credit monitoring services live and breathe on this assumption, selling consumers on the idea...
It's counter-intuitive to raise interest rates and slather even more debt onto troubled borrowers, but that's exactly what lenders often do. They're in business to make money, not to make sense. We don't get to make up the rules of...
Though it may seem hard to believe, it's been 10 years since the September 11th attacks on America. In the days and weeks following that tragedy we struggled to find our way back to a sense of normalcy; a sense...
After years of using unfair collection practices against consumers, a number of debt collection agencies are finally starting to feel the sting of consumer discontent. Across the nation fed up consumers are fighting back instead of silently sitting back and ...
Sadly I've grown accustomed to reading headlines about innocent families, including our military families, fighting to save their home from a wrongful foreclosure. I've grown incensed that I continue to get emails from consumers whose stories are so similar that...
A memoir exposing the steep price consumers pay when facing mortgage servicing errors, inaccurate credit reporting, illegal debt collection practices, identity theft and weak consumer protection laws. THE BOOK » DENISE'S STORY »
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