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...people to sign up, phone salesmen literally promise callers the world. This year it's the sunny Caribbean. Eastern Europe, Kuwait and Australia were last year's come-on. One man was told his credit-card debt would be paid off; another was assured his employer would fly his dog overseas. A Chicago woman believed an agency that told her Iran was hiring female construction workers. Three construction workers in Decatur, Illinois, thought they had got a real deal with a "buddy package" to work on hotels and casinos in Aruba in the Netherlands Antilles. "What suckers we were," says...
Rosenfeld was arrested in 1991 after hatching a plot to build and sell IBM computers. He and some pals bought nearly $1 million worth of computer parts using credit-card numbers from strangers' credit reports. A Secret Service raid on Rosenfeld's Brooklyn, New York, home uncovered 176 credit reports stolen from TRW, a leading credit-rating company. He says he sold "thousands" of such reports to private investigators...
Accompanying the high tide in retailing was a year-end spike in credit-card use. One possible result: weak January and February sales, taking some of the shine off December's tinsel as the bills from the binge drop through America's mail slots...
Jerry Seinfeld discusses credit-card interest rates with a goldfish, yet. In another ad, he watches as a wealthy consumer is rebuffed by the salesclerk when he proffers the card. Says Seinfeld: "What! You pick the clothes, he picks the card?" Perfect casting. Seinfeld's message drips with a sarcasm that Amex could not deliver directly...
...Elizabeth Mastrantonio) who are lured away from their narrow suburban patterns of getting and spending, both financial and sexual. The seducer is their next-door neighbor, Eddy Otis (Kevin Spacey), abetted by his wife Kay (Rebecca Miller). First Eddy masterminds an insurance scam to help the Parkers out of credit-card debt. Next he encourages a spot of highly improbable wife swapping. Can violent crimes -- and false accusations leveled at poor, increasingly bedeviled Richard -- be far behind...