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Using a credit card online can be dangerous if the right security precautions aren’t taken. Fortunately, as the popularity of eCommerce continues to grow the security precautions taken by online merchants and payment processors become more stringent. However, aside from the online precautions many people forget to take the necessary measures to protect their credit card details in the real world.

The following tips could prevent thousands of dollars in credit card fraud and possibly even identity theft.

Securing the Computer

Anyone that conducts business regularly online probably has information on their computer that could be used detrimentally by cyber criminals. I

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Summer is finally here and we’re kicking things off with a little summer time vacation fun! For the month of June, Credit.com is hosting a Summer Contest where you and your friends can play to win a free flight* to use towards your next vacation!

To enter, simply follow CreditExperts on Twitter and then retweet (RT) one of our daily vacation smart tips. Each new tip that you retweet will count as one (1) entry — this means you can enter daily for multiple chances to win!

To play, you’ll need to make sure:

1. You’re following CreditExperts on Twitter.
2. Watch each day for a new vacationing smart tip.
3. Retweet (RT) that day’s tip before the next day’s tip is posted.

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I haven’t talked much about my peer to peer lending activities, mostly because I’m still in the evaluation stage and I’m only one year into it. But peer to peer lending through organizations like Lending Club have gained a lot of popularity in recent years. I have made some paper profits from person to person loans, though I haven’t invested all that much yet (a little less than $1,000).

The main thing to consider is that you literally ARE becoming a bank. You are lending your own money to people you know only from an application. You could lose money. You sho

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You know the story…sell a car, buy a car, buy a car, sell a car. Easy as pie, right? Well, have you ever tried to sell your car to someone living in Canada? I did, and what an experience it was. Let’s just say both sides have to really want to complete the transaction. Here’s the chronology of events and some color commentary.

1. We decided to sell my wife’s car, which apparently is very rare. It’s a 2000 C43 AMG and not very many were imported to the U.S. Mileage very low for a 10 year old car, 79,500.
2. I wrote a blog about the car several months ago on a Mercedes Benz website.

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Have you ever stopped to think how, in life, when you have taken complete responsibility for something, it got done? It may have been something insignificant such as planning a party or a trip. It may have been something seemingly insignificant like cleaning out a messy garage. Other times, perhaps it was something larger and more important. Completing a critical project at your job. Being there for a friend who needed you at a crucial time. It might even have been a major life issue such as raising a child or moving to a new city.

The moment you decided to take full responsibility and made the commitment to do it, there was no doubt in your mind that you would do otherwise.

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Financial security watchdogs have more to worry about with the discovery that social media site Blippy.com accidentally leaked the credit card numbers of at least five members to a search engine’s cache. Full credit card numbers appeared in cached search results offered by Google, alongside transaction information that could have been used to gain access to personal accounts. In reports from PC Magazine and The New York Times, security analysts noted that services like Blippy, Swipely, and Mint encourage consumers to share sensitive personal information while downplaying the risk of identity theft.

Technicians and company officials posted to Blippy’s blog and Twitter account throughout the week, assuring site members that the glitch was limited only to a handful of users holding accounts from either of two specific card issuers. T Read full post…