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...paper trail provided other links. Combing through thousands of visa applications, French authorities found forms submitted by Vakili and Azadi. Their applications had been endorsed by a French electronics company called Syfax. Officials of the company said they had intervened at the request of Iranian businessman Massoud Hendi, a nephew of the Ayatullah Khomeini and a former Paris bureau chief for Iranian television...
Testifying before the House Banking Subcommittee on Consumer Credit and Insurance, Bedell explained that she had once been an ordinary, happy-go-lucky college student, before Visa and the Discover Card targeted her for financial ruin...
Needless, because, as Paul A. Allen, vice president and general counsel of Visa USA, points out, "There are always horror stories, but in reality, college students perform as well as or better than the credit card holding population at large." Roughly four percent of college-age cardholders default on their debt--about the same percentage as the cardholding population at large...
...Allen notes, "If you're over 18, you're an adult. This is an adult market and they're treated as such by Visa and by the blanks...
...after we got the car fixed at this Esso station (thank God, this place took VISA), we started to drive back to Boston. It was around 11 pm or so. We decided to take I-93 because that would save us at least 2 hours of driving. Since the gas prices in Montreal were ridiculously high, we decided to fill up once we got past the border. However, once we crossed the border, we could not find a single gas station open past midnight. So we were stranded in the middle of nowhere without gas. We pulled the car into...