You're desperately looking for a new job. One day, you get an email out of the blue offering you a position, if you want it. It takes you by surprise, but you're so interested in getting a job that you don't worry about it. The company tells you that you are going to...
False advertising is one of the most common examples of a deceptive trade practice. This happens when the company lies to or intentionally misleads consumers simply to get them to buy a product. However, it's important to remember that deceptive trade practices can...
If you are planning to purchase a car, take out a loan or use other forms of credit, your credit report is of the utmost importance. If anything takes your credit score down, it can impact the amount you can borrow and the interest rates you face. You know you have...
Your car is going to be repossessed. You don't have enough money on hand to make all of the full payments or pay off the amount that you owe from the missed due dates. Should you still do what you can, sending in a partial payment, or should you stop paying entirely...
Elder fraud is a serious issue that persists year after year, despite the efforts of family members, organizations and even financial institutions. The elderly are often targets for these financial schemes because of their potential isolation, possible mental...
Companies are expected to market their products honestly. They should let the products sell themselves on their own merits, and marketing is more or less just a way to tell the public what the products can do. Embellishing things or lying about a product can bring...
Have you found that there are significant errors in your credit report, affecting your ability to get a personal loan, student loan or mortgage? This is an overwhelming situation because you may not even know where to begin to resolve this type of complicated issue,...
If you don't pay on your car loan, the lender eventually has the right to repossess the car. This is something you know when you buy the car, and most people know that a repossession is coming long before it happens simply because they know they haven't been paying....
Tax collection fraud is already very common. Some reports indicate that millions have been called since just 2013, with around 10,000 people paying some $55,000,000 in taxes. The scam is simple. They just call, say they are with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and...
A man is being sued for creating and selling what he claims is "drinkable" sunscreen. It's called Osmosis Skincare and Harmonized Water. He says that it helps to protect those who drink it from UV rays, even though it's not applied to the skin, by using "form radio...