Filed under: MySpace We have seen no greater example of exactly why we are in our current dire financial straights than the new MySpace-branded credit card. In what we can only assume is a conspiracy by News Corp (owner of MySpace, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal) to ensure that the younger gen...

It was just a few weeks ago that the world learned of the millions of credit card accounts compromised by Heartland Payment, an account processing clearinghouse that had its networks infiltrated by hackers for months before anyone noticed. Now we have word of another breach, but this one is more mys...

Why did my waitress add my credit card number to the bill? After finishing a meal at a local restaurant this morning, I went to the cashier station to pay my bill and presented my credit card. The cashier/waitress swiped it, ran a receipt, and handed it to me to sign. I noticed she was writing somet...

Filed under: Computers Florida is turning into a hotbed of identity theft and credit card fraud. According to CNET, this week brought news of three major security breaches in Florida that have put the personal information of tens of thousands of regular citizens in danger. First, Best Buy discovered...

Freelancer needs to process large credit card transactions. One of my freelance clients (U.S. Fortune 50 company) wants to pay me via credit card for invoices under 10K. I have a PayPal business account and a ProPay Premium account, but neither one is working for me. (PayPal throws an error when I t...

My googlefoo is failing me: Hasn't anyone written a program that helps you figure out the best strategy for playing the "rotate credit card balances from one card to the next to take advantage of low APR offers" game? (You know the offers - you get maybe 0% or 1.99% APR for 6 months, but a...

What if I just stopped paying my credit cards? I have about 12k in credit card debt. I currently have a mortgage and a car. I'm not behind on anything. My payments are made in full, plus some, every month. At this rate, I break even every month, but I have little cash on hand and no savings other th...

How do I know if I should be considering bankruptcy? My spouse and I have somewhere around $15,000 in credit card debt, and we each have student loans. Between rent, bills (utilities and such), card payments, student loans, gas, groceries, etc. we are getting by paycheck to paycheck. Most bills are ...

Macs zijn dan misschien wel virus-bestendig, maar Mac-gebruikers niet. Vandaag zijn weer heel wat mensen in de klassieke phishing-mail getrapt. De mail lijkt afkomstig te zijn van Apple MobileMe, maar dat is dus niet het geval. In de mail staat dat de betaling die je hebt gedaan voor MobileMe is mis...

I didn't enter my "Verified by Visa" password, but NewEgg charged and shipped my order anyway. Can I skip this part every time? Over the weekend I was ordering some stuff from NewEgg. I got to what I thought was the last page ("Confirm your order" or whatever), clicked Submit, sa...