Category Archives: Credit Cards

How Safe is it to Use Your Credit Card Online?

January 27th, 2009

You’ve read about it and seen it on TV, the bad guys rummaging through garbage or sitting in a car with a wireless laptop, looking for a way to steal your personal information, your credit card numbers, social security number, your signature, etc… Identity theft is an unfortunate reality that can and should haunt anyone [...]

A Brief History of the Credit Card

January 19th, 2009

The idea of the credit card was first introduced in a book titled “Looking Backward,” an 1887 novel by Edward Ballamy. Charge cards, as they were first called, were originally used for buying gasoline during the 1920′s. Theses charge cards were printed on paper cards and were very easy to forge. This gave rise to [...]