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Dear Greg: I placed an order with Overstock.com at the end of April. The furniture arrived with several issues, the main one being what sounds like a broken spring. Several months, a dozen e-mails and several calls later, I still have broken furniture....

First, the bad news. There is no real way to prevent someone from stealing your identity or swiping financial and personal information, unless you have no bank accounts, credit cards or Social Security number. Let's deal with the good news. Consumers...

Talk about taboo subjects. It seems most Americans would rather discuss their love lives with somebody they just met than how much they owe on their credit cards. They would also rather talk about their salaries, mortgage or rent payments, health...

A good credit score matters a lot now if you're in the market for a home loan and don't want a 10 percent interest rate. Lenders are much, much pickier than they were before being hit by the foreclosure wave. Two years ago, a 620 FICO score was enough...

When is zero-percent-interest financing a lot more expensive than free? When it taints your credit score. And, be advised, it can do that. When I'm talking about zero-percent financing, I'm talking about the enticements you've seen aplenty lately: "Buy...

Quienes se dedican al crimen del robo de identidad continúan rompiendo records cuando se trata de robarle la vida y el dinero a la gente. La semana pasada las autoridades federales desarticularon lo que se cree es la red más grande de fraude por robo...

Decide to become a homeowner and, inevitably, you'll have to confront your credit score. You can try to improve your odds of qualifying for a home loan by saving more for a bigger down payment, but your credit score is the most important factor in...

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Identity thieves continue to break records when it comes to stealing peoples' lives and loot. Last week federal authorities busted what is alleged to be the largest hacking and identity theft case in the United States, involving the theft and sale of...

You probably know your SAT score, assuming you took the test. But what about your credit score? Once you're past the college-application stage of life, the second score is a lot more important. Or, rather, scores, because a variety of companies are...

The University of Maryland says it accidentally printed Social Security numbers on the outside of a mailing sent to all students. The school says the brochure about on-campus parking went out July 1. It discovered a week later that each mailing label...

Talk about taboo subjects. Most Americans would rather discuss their love lives with somebody they just met than how much they owe on their credit cards. They would also rather talk about their salaries, mortgage or rent payments, health problems or...