The Great Credit Card Scam
When confronted with surging bankruptcies, a down economy, and increasing credit card fraud you’d think the bank card industry would be on the ropes. But that is incorrect. The truth is, last year the industry posted near record profits. How did they do that? Easy – by stealing you blind!
They run expensive TV ads in the middle of January tempting you with white sandy beaches and warm tropical sunshine. Or they show a couple happily sipping champagne on the veranda of their cruiseship stateroom in the sunny Caribbean. It looks mighty good each time a bitter winter storm is howling outside your window!
Their goal is simple: get you into debt and then help you stay there for as long as possible while they bleed you dry with a toxic blend of high rates of interest and other hidden charges. What they do should be criminal simply because it clearly preys on the human weakness of desire. We really wish for things for ourselves as well as for our loved ones. It’s only natural. They furnish what we want and then year after year they charge us three to six times the original price. But don’t expect the administration to provide you with protection soon. The charge card industry has a whole lot more influence over our law makers than we ever will. They make huge campaign donations so the government happily provides them a license to steal and throws us to the wolves. So the madness continues.
Where will all of it end? Personal bankruptcies will top 1.4 million this current year. Total credit card debt is currently well over two trillion dollars and headed towards the moon. Eventually this concern must be dealt with on a national level until then – you’re very much on your own.
Fundamentally if you have a ton of credit cards and high debt and if you’ve been late with a payment or two you can expect that most issuers will notify the big three credit agencies and you will probably end up getting more than one negative marks against to your credit rating. Though those marks will stay for around seven years, the great thing is that you can begin to rebuild your credit immediately. Be sure that you make every one of your minimum payments right on time.
Crizza Reyes
Crizza writes for several women’s blog sites and magazines about challenges regarding women. For more information about credit cards and high debt please see more at our web site or on Amazon.

May 6, 2012 




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