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FTC Takes On Ads From Credit Monitoring Service Freecreditreport.com

New York Times | RON LIEBER | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business


The Federal Trade Commission is not amused. It has long believed that the company that owns freecreditreport.com is deliberately diverting people from...

Arthur Delaney

State Department Gone Wild (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.13.2009 | World


The good folks at the United States consulate in Merida have created a helpful, rock music-filled Spring Break video for the Cancun-bound. The messag...

Arthur Delaney

FTC Parodies FreeCreditReport.Com Ads (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business


The Federal Trade Commission is hoping to go viral. On Tuesday the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection uploaded some funny videos to YouTube -- paro...

Arthur Delaney

Free Credit Report: How The Ads Soak Consumers

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business


Commercials for FreeCreditReport.com have reached a saturation point in the consciousness of the television-watching public. The affable, scruffy youn...

Ed McMahon Gets Job Rapping About Credit Woes

AP | DERRIK J. LANG | Posted 10.26.2008 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Ed McMahon has an unexpected new job title: rapper. The 85-year-old former "Tonight Show" sidekick will star in two viral rap video...

Songs For Sale: The Era of the New Megahit

David Singer | Posted 10.17.2008 | Chicago


David Singer

As in any ecosystem, a new and parasitic mutation is coming to fill the void, giving us the tunes that will become part of our lives, our history, our shared cultural identity. I speak, of course, of the jingle.

FreeCreditReport.com Unveils New Ad: A Rap Song (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 09.27.2008 | Business


FreeCreditReport.com has finally unveiled a new ad. The previous ads, songs about marrying a girl with bad credit, being forced to work as pirate in a...

How To Clear Mistakes From Your Credit Report

MSNBC | Laura T. Coffey | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Have you ever been horrified to discover errors on your credit report? Such inaccuracies can and should strike fear into any conscientious consumer's ...

"Free" Credit Reports Sometimes Aren't Free

USA Today | Byron Acohido, Jon Swartz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Like many consumers, Wendy Temple's first step shopping for a mortgage was to go online to get a sense of where she stood as a prospective borrower. ...