Save yourself from Phishing expeditions
There is no doubt that sooner or later you will be getting an email from your bank regarding a security issue, but is this really from your bank or just someone pretending to be your bank?
This practice has become known to us as Phishing and is becoming a valuable to all sorts of fraudsters who [...]
Banks to offer same day clearance
From the end of May bank customers who bank online or over the phone will be able to see their transactions be completed the same day. At the moment anyone that makes an online or phone transaction will have to wait a minimum of three days for the funds to clear.
But as from the 27th [...]
Banks have to pay out
Following the recent result in the high court, the banks where told that their charges for unauthorised overdrafts and other fees have been charge in an unfair way. As if it was not bad enough for the banks, they are expected to have to pay back all of the money that they over charged customers [...]
April 24, 2008Students dropping out due to debt
It has been found from a survey by the National Union of Students that there are many students who are just dropping out from college or university, not because of the work involved, but simply because they just cannot face the debts that they are accumulating.
In this case the NUS surveyed students in Scotland, where [...]
Is £50 billion enough to save the economy?
What would seem to be the largest amount cash that the Bank of England have ever put into the banking system, it is in order for the UK banks to be able to lend more money out to the UK consumers, but will this amount be enough to save the UK economy?
At present the [...]
Some browsers to be blocked by PayPal
In an attempt to prevent online fraud and other security issues, the online payment processing business PayPal will introducing browser blocking this would prevent that user from accessing the PayPal website.
This will not be a complete shutout for PayPal users because they will be getting a warning first, it will be something like a warning [...]
Women more likely to give personal details
It’s a shocking thought, but in a recent survey carried out just outside Liverpool Street station in London commuters were asked about the personal details. Like any legitimate survey that you would normally see where ask about phones and electrical suppliers etc.
But this survey was different the interviewers were fake, and the survey was a [...]
Gordon Brown defends UK finances
Having been applauded for so many years as the best Chancellor of the Exchequer that this country has ever had, it must be coming as quite a shock for the Prime Minister Gordon Brown to find that his management of the country and in particular the finances of the UK are being questioned.
In fact during [...]
Cyber criminal stole $1.4 million
A cyber criminal who stole carried out attacks that affect over six hundred people has been sentenced to nine years in prison. Mario Simbaqueba Bonilla aged 40 from Columbia was found guilty of committing computer fraud on grand scale. The proceeds of which netted him around $1.4 million.
Along with his sentence he was given a [...]
Surviving the crash
With the future looking fairly bleak these days, it may be necessary to take some cautionary steps now in order to survive into the future. There have been many stories of how bad it was during the between to the two world wars, but it could happen again!
In order to get through a deep recession [...]
It pays to work for Google
More or less everyone knows that working at Google has some really cool fringe benefits like massages, great meals and even if you would be inclined a new hair style too, all this takes place in the best working facilities in the world.
For some people that would be enough and they would work there for [...]
Using a recession to an advantage
The very word recession strikes fear into the heart of many people, and there is good reason to be scared of it, there could be lay offs from works, firms go broke and money is in short supply, making the day to day living that we have got used, feel a lot harder than before.
But [...]
Egg puts borrowers in a scramble
The credit crunch is really taking hold and some people who use the internet bank EGG are about to find out that things are going to get a lot harder. The bank is going to stop some 161,000 credit card customers from making any future transactions on their cards; clearly this is going to hit [...]
April 7, 2008Family can help you with a debt crisis
Many people who find themselves in some sort of debt crisis do not share their worries with friends and families. In fact in a recent survey nearly half of all of those who answered stated that they would rather talk about other personal things such as their weight, mortgages and anything else, rather than the [...]
April 3, 2008Job cuts in Finance sector
With news coming across from the states saying that around 20,000 jobs could be at risk in the financial services sector, it is only natural that we in the UK should be concerned as what happens there normally drifts across the water and affects here.
Unfortunately in this case the trend has remained true, and according [...]
Sensible credit card use
There is a deepening debt crisis looming and nobody really knows exactly what is going to happen with the world finances, but there is one thing that you can do to help yourself and that is get control of your own finances and to be more precise your credit card.
Now there are many offers out [...]