Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-297).
Contents:
Why our troops get ripped off -- The payday loan : borrowing money at 390 percent interest -- High-interest personal loans -- Buying clubs, buying headaches -- Life insurance sales: "have I got an investment for you..." -- Landlord/tenant issues -- Buying and financing overpriced computers and electronics -- Cell-phone service suspension -- Internet, telephone, and mail scams -- Identity theft -- Rent to own or rent to owe? -- Taxed to the max: refund-anticipation loans -- Education rip-offs : "dollar signs in uniform" -- Debt-collection abuses -- Auto purchase and finance -- Auto-repair fraud -- Auto repossession: the repo man cometh -- Car title loans -- Special rules pertaining to the sale and repair of motor vehicles : buyers' guides and lemon laws -- Fight back!.
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