Your new credit card has arrived, with your customised design and a healthy limit on it. Holidays, new iPhone and mini iPad are a quick transaction away and your cash-flow seems endless. That’s until a second, less delightful, envelope comes in the post, your card bill. Shocked by glaring, red figures on my own bills, [...]

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Have you been a victim of theft or robbery recently? It seems that theft is on the rise, with 13 million of us in the UK having been a victim of credit card theft or fraud according to the UK Cards Association. Total losses on UK cards hit £388m in 2012, a 14% rise compared [...]

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There are firms that will charge for arranging you PPI claim although, given that all the documentation is freely available, this route seems to be reserved for the aggressively lazy, those not on the TPS caught off-guard by cold-calling pushy telesales clones or by those easily swayed by the low producvtion values of the relentless day-time PPI TV ads.

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If you’ve used Google or Yahoo recently to search for the customer service number of a bank, business or even hospital, you can’t fall to notice the proliferation of websites using premium rate phone numbers to charge you for this simple piece of information. The Industry watchdog, PhonepayPlus , has warned that scammers are displaying [...]

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