NBCUniversal to Launch THE BIGGEST LOSER Visa Card

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Viewers and fans of the hit NBC reality series THE BIGGEST LOSER (Tuesdays, 8-10 p.m. ET) can now be rewarded for living The Biggest Loser lifestyle with the introduction of The Biggest Loser Visa Rewards Card(R) from UMB Bank, N.A.

Available nationwide, The Biggest Loser Visa Rewards Card will allow cardholders to earn rewards points for health and wellness related purchases and expenses, including co-pays, prescriptions, eyeglasses, gym memberships, and even sporting goods and equipment. In addition, triple rewards points will be available at popular national retailers.

The Edwards Group has licensed The Biggest Loser Visa Rewards Card through NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group and Reveille LLC, the company behind “The Biggest Loser.” The card is available at www.biggestloser.com/visa (or by calling 866/488-3883). A complete list of retailers is available at www.biggestloser.com/visa.

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U.S. Credit Card Delinquencies May Be On The Rise

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Consumer credit card debt taking a tumble

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The amount of credit card debt owed to lenders in the metropolitan areas that were hardest hit by high balances in the past has been falling significantly in the last year.

Of the 100 metropolitan areas nationwide that had the largest credit card debt as a percentage of annual income at the end of 2010, nearly 60 of them had seen double-digit drops in those balances at the end of 2011, according to new data from the credit monitoring bureau Equifax. Perhaps not surprisingly, the areas where those falls were most precipitous were in states that were among the most affected by the economic downturn to begin with, including California, Florida, Louisiana and Washington. Five metropolitan areas in Florida saw double-digit drops, the most of any single state.

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Pace of new credit card accounts picks up in 2011

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NEW YORK—More people opened new credit card accounts last year, as the banking industry began to loosen standards it tightened during the recession.

The number of new cards issued to consumers rose 14 percent in 2011 to about 42.3 million, according to data provided by TransUnion. And about a quarter of those cards—roughly 10.7 million—went to people with less-than-stellar credit histories, TransUnion said.

The credit reporting agency said the increased lending to people with lower credit scores doesn’t mean the climate has shifted back to where it was in 2006 and 2007. Lending standards have tightened dramatically since then, said Ezra Becker, vice president of research and consulting in TransUnion’s financial services business unit.

But the combination of tight competition for top-rated consumers with improvement in the economy is encouraging banks to take a closer look at lending to consumers who made a few mistakes in the past. This is the second straight quarter that subprime consumers are getting a larger slice of the credit pie than they did during the depth of the Great Recession.

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Woman in Rock Hill tries to use fraudulent credit card to buy gifts

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A Rock Hill Food Lion employee told police a woman tried to use a fraudulent credit card to buy $ 622 worth of Visa gift cards Monday night.

“The items were rung up and processed and when asked to see the credit card, the suspect refused and became suspicious,” a Rock Hill police report says.

When the clerk at the Heckle Boulevard store told the woman that police had been called, the woman left in a white SUV in “a reckless manner.”

She left the gift cards and the fraudulent card behind, according to the report. Police took the card and surveillance video as evidence and are investigating.

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City Council considers fee for utility payments made with credit cards

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Monday, February 20, 2012 | 10:51 p.m. CST

COLUMBIA — The City Council is considering charging a service fee to those who pay utility bills with credit cards.

The council voted Monday to redraft an existing amendment permitting the city’s finance director to offer discounts to the city’s biggest utility customers in exchange for bills paid in cash.

In lieu of a discount for “large volume utility customers,” Mayor Bob McDavid proposed that all customers paying with credit cards should be charged an additional service fee. The ambiguity of his proposal left the specific value of that fee to the discretion of city staff.

The council endorsed McDavid’s revision in light of a two-year, 260 percent increase in processing fees incurred by the city as a the result of utilities payments made by credit card. Such charges amounted to $ 462,649 in fiscal year 2011, according to a city memo.

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Pennsylvania is among the safest states to fall behind on credit card bills

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Not that you should. Not that you’d ever want to. But if someday you happen to fall behind on credit card payments, Pennsylvania is among the safest places in the country to do it.

It is one of four states — the others being North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas — where debt collectors cannot garnish your wages if you default, according to Clayton S. Morrow, a consumer protection attorney in Pittsburgh.

Elsewhere, collection agencies may seek a court order requesting that your employer siphon off 25 percent of your disposable income, after deductions for taxes and Social Security. That is, after your employer has siphoned off any alimony, family support, criminal restitution or student loans on which you’re also delinquent.

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County to reconsider credit card policies

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Iowan imprisoned for theft, credit card fraud

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WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) – A 29-year-old Waterloo woman who had been working as a waitress has been sentenced for stealing credit card information from her customers to make new cards.

The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports (http://bit.ly/zCUIs0 ) Melissa Zehr was sentenced last week to 15 years in prison. She’d pleaded guilty to theft and credit card fraud.

The sentence will be served at the same time as a sentence for crimes in the Iowa City area.

Police say data from the cards were taken from the magnetic strip and then recorded onto another magnetic strip.

The second strip was placed on an ordinary pre-paid Visa card, and a name was embossed on the front. Purchases were then charged to the victim’s account.

Court records say nearly 20 customers had complained their cards were hijacked.

Information from: Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, http://www.wcfcourier.com

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Credit card RFID theft protection is as simple as an ‘on’ button

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University researchers from the Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering have created an effective solution to curb credit card RFID and NFC theft, and it’s as simple as pressing a button.

University researchers are working on a simple solution to the unnervingly easy-to-hack radio frequency ID chips (RFID) and near-field communication cards (NFC) installed in credit cards. Think of it as button that activates the cards when ready to be used for payment.

While scanning credit cards rather than swiping them is convenient, the need for better security derives from unforeseen loopholes in the technology that have been exposed since its introduction. In the case of credit cards installed with RFID chips, the first step to stealing an unsuspecting victim’s credit card information  is as simple as an eBay purchase.

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