Students Fighting Credit Card Tactics
In the past year 8.4 million Americans were victims of identity theft. Identity theft is the number one crime in the United States, and it is spreading worldwide. Student Advocates are asking that colleges must help protect students from credit problems.
Colleges have allowed aggressive and often deceptive credit card marketing campaigns on their campuses for years. Credit card companies are often allowed to set up booths in campus bookstores and include advertisements for their cards in college welcome packets as well as advertising on campus.
Some colleges even provide student contact information to banks which they receive a fee for doing so. The U.S. PIRG (The Federation of State Public Interest Research Groups) is urging college administrators to take an active role in determining the type of credit card marketing that is allowed on their campuses.
College students are commonly victims of unfair credit card marketing practices, that can and should be stopped.
Your Internet Safety Advisors,
Dave Ballard
Bill Wardell
Filed under: Identity, Identity Theft
Those numbers are startling. Thanks for this - even my readers at LoveJots need to be aware of such thievery. It’s so universal. Be neat to hear what you have to say on your radio station.
Nice blog here by the way - I like the colors too =) Easy on my eyes.
Debs
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