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Getting a Credit Card This Spring Or Summer?

Watch Out for These Tricks!

credit card selected from a stack Been thinking about a new credit card? Think all credit cards are alike? If you think that, good luck. You’re going to need it!

A lot of credit card companies will tell you that new regulations just put in place make it easy for you to get the right card—and make it harder for companies to push you to get a credit card when you shouldn’t get one.

For instance:

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HOW ABOUT SOME MONEY BACK?

February 2010

As tight money times continue in 2010, how does getting some money back sound? Maybe a thousand dollars or two?

If you’re driving a vehicle financed at any place other than CCU, money back may be closer than you think. If you financed a new or used vehicle some other place, a lot of money back may be in your future.

Thousands of times in the past several years, CCU has refinanced members’ car loans from other financial institutions and has saved members an average of $1790 in interest payments.

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February 2010

Consumer Groups Warn of Debt Settlement Trap — offers debt-strapped consumers advice on getting real relief

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On Facebook? Read This.

checked no on a form On Facebook a lot? Think what you put up and do there is under your control because you’re careful about what you share? Think again.

More than 350 thousand software applications¹ now have unlimited access to virtually everything you post there. Don’t like that? You can stop all 350,000 applications from using your information—if you opt out 350,000 times (you have to opt out for each one).²

Unless you set every privacy setting carefully—which can take hours—millions (that’s right, millions) of companies and people now have access to key information about you—forever.³

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