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Debt Relief Company Must Pay $170M For Illegally Charging Customers
Back in 2013, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued Morgan Drexen, accusing the debt relief company of deceiving customers with promises of reducing their debt and charging illegal upfront fees...
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Does Venmo Hold Moochers Accountable, Or Let Cheapskates Show Their True Colors?
Between PayPal’s Venmo, Facebook’s Messenger, Chase’s Quickpay, Square’s Cash, and other money-sending services, there’s no shortage of ways for friends to quickly send each other a few dollars to...
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Student Loan Borrowers Face Needless Hurdles When Trying To Reduce Payments
It’s a fact of life: if you take out thousands of dollars in federal student loans to attend college, you have to pay them back. While the government offers borrowers some relief through free...
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My Bank Overdrafted My Account By Putting Two Holds On One Deposit; Doesn’t Care
Imagine that you do everything you can to avoid overdrafting your bank account, only to find that your bank has gone ahead and pushed you into the red — and that it doesn’t really care. It might be...
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Feds Order MasterCard, RushCard Owner To Pay $13M Over Oct. 2015 Outages
Nearly 15 months after tens of thousands of users of the prepaid RushCard were cut off from their funds because of an apparent technical glitch, the company behind the card, UniRush and its payment...
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Legal Fund Accused Of Deceiving 9/11 First Responders & NFL Players Out Of...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the state of New York have accused a New Jersey company of defrauding customers — including Sept. 11 first responders and former NFL players suffering from...
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Move Over Mattresses: $100,000 Found Stashed Inside Old TV
You wouldn’t expect to fit more than a few dollars in the back of today’s flat-screen televisions, but TVs of yesteryear with their bulky backs full of tubes and cords were apparently another option...
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Soon-To-Be Proposed Sugary Drink Tax In Seattle Won’t Apply To Starbucks
Seattle could soon be joining the ranks of Philadelphia, Chicago, Boulder, CO, Albany, Berkeley, CA, and a handful of other cities in charging consumers a little extra when they purchase a sugary...
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Bank Of America, Delta Pull Funding From “Julius Caesar” Production Seen As...
It’s been more than 2,000 years since Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of Roman senators, and more than 400 years since William Shakespeare immortalized the dirty deed. The Bard’s Julius...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Gets A Boost From Cheap Drinks, McPick Menu
All of those $1 drinks from McDonald’s continue to add up, boosting the fast food giant’s bottomline for a second quarter in a row. McDonald’s posted a same-store sales gain of 4.1% for the third...
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