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ATTORNEY GENERAL AYOTTE URGES ATTENTION TO CREDIT CARD OFFERS
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US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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October 22, 2007
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The New Hampshire Attorney General issued the following news release:
Attorney General Kelly A. Ayotte warns consumers of a recent business practice brought to the attention of the Consumer Protection Bureau by numerous consumers who have called the Consumer Hotline or filed written complaints. A major credit card company is providing former customers of a major department store with an unsolicited ready-to-activate credit card. The credit card company claims they prefaced the actual mailing of these cards with a letter explaining that they had acquired the department store's credit card business last year. Some of the consumers who received the new, unsolicited card, had not used their ...
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