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Jennifer Aniston Says Credit Card Scam Suspect ‘Not Cool’-Says Bill O’Reilly’s Statement is “unfair”

CNN.com article: Federal agents: Celebrity ’skin artist’ was a scam artist By Alan Duke, CNN August 18, 2010 8:18 pm EDT Actress Liv Tyler suffered 4000 in fraudulent charges, authorities said. Los Angeles, California (CNN) — The woman who Jennifer Aniston, Cher, Melanie Griffith and other stars have trusted with their skin allegedly couldn’t be trusted with their credit cards, according to federal authorities. Federal agents arrested Beverly Hills spa owner Gabriella Perez on charges of using her celebrity clients’ credit card information to make fraudulent purchases totaling at least 0000, according to the US Attorney’s office in Los Angeles. Perez, who described herself as a “skin artist” on her business website, was arrested without incident Wednesday afternoon, the prosecutor’s office said. Chez Gabriela Studio is “the temple of beauty” for Beverly Hills, its website said. “Gabriela is my favorite ass kicking facialist,” the website quoted Cher saying. “She is the Michelangelo of skin care!” The criminal complaint named actress Liv Tyler as a major victim, with 4000 in allegedly fraudulent charges made by Perez on her American Express card last year. High-end jewelry designer Loree Rodkin was the first client to alert federal investigators, the complaint said. The complaint alleges Perez “fraudulently charged numerous times on her (Rodkin’s) Visa credit card from the studio.” When Rodkin’s lawyer tried to resolve the charges with Perez, she allegedly …

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How teens get sucked into credit card debt

Like a lot of hard-working women, Andrea Alba has moments of financial despair. Between juggling 3 jobs, paying her bills and trying to get out of debt, she feels overwhelmed

…Adam Wehr’s struggle with debt began right after he graduated from high school. He signed up for a card with a $500 limit. “I was really good for the first six months,” says Wehr. Then he signed up for another card, “and things got out of control.” Within a couple of years he had eight credit cards and was nearly $10,000 in debt.
Wehr, now 22, says his undoing was that he had no clue how a credit card worked. “I was fooled by that minimum payment thing,” he says. “I thought if I paid that, I was fine.”
Interest rates? Late fees? “I had no idea,” he admits. “I was totally oblivious to all that stuff.”
Now, parents and teens concerned about the dangers of credit cards appear to be turning to a new breed of plastic cards: debit, prepaid and stored-value:…

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