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...many lenders waive even that amount. But last year credit-fraud victims spent countless hours and an average of $1,173 to restore their credit ratings. And all it takes to get the ball rolling is one crooked telemarketer or someone who fishes a receipt or "preapproved" credit-card offer out of your trash...
Johnson doesn't know how he got targeted. But Discover Card alerted him on Sept. 30 that someone had opened an account in his name. Johnson called the three major credit bureaus and found that two of his credit reports were riddled with errors. Accounts had been opened by someone who gave the wrong birth date and mother's maiden name. When he turned to his local police, a detective told him nothing could be done unless he had the suspect's name and address--implying that Johnson should do a little digging...
...which flag potential lenders to contact their home or office before approving an application. Two months after Johnson posted these preauthorization advisories, Gateway's lending arm called to say it had rejected a fraudulent application. The same day, American Express phoned to see whether Johnson had received an Optima card--one he hadn't applied...
...Abubakar: This is a ploy by Mahathir, who is using the terrorist card to eliminate his opposition before election time...
...Cubists, led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who deconstructed the basic sphere, cylinder, cone and cube that learner artists were set to copy. They broke apart these simple solids to construct ambiguous images that appear to emerge from the canvas or flatten out like a collapsing card-house. Their rather dry theories were gleefully hijacked by others and transformed into still lives, portraits, street and café scenes. Cubist angles form the background to Russian Marc Chagall's Paris through the Window of 1913 and even become a pair of frilly panties in Italian Gino Severini's Dancer...