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Re: 2-Oct-12 World View -- American Express fined $112.5 mil

by Trevor » Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:15 am

Yeah, the Germans are furious, especially since none of these countries are going to change their behaviors. I'm amazed that they've put up with it for as long as they have.

As for the credit card companies, I've also been hearing plenty of reports of the companies changing the due date for the bill without informing the customer, in order to make them pay late fees and earn even bigger bonuses. I know someone personally who has had this happen to him three times over the past couple of years.

Re: 2-Oct-12 World View -- American Express fined $112.5 mil

by OLD1953 » Tue Oct 02, 2012 1:29 am

To analyze the AMEX story a bit, it says they will pay 112.5 million to settle for defrauding 250,000 customers. Doubtless the number defrauded was much higher, but suppose it was 250,000. The story says they were in this business of fraud from at least 2003 on. At 55$ per customer per year for 9 years, that would be 495$ per customer. The fine amounts to 450$ per customer, assuming it was only 250,000 involved and none of them were cheated of more than 55$ per year, both of which assumptions seem highly doubtful to me. So they keep 10% of their illegal profits and are fined the rest. (Assuming they don't have a separate unit for fraudlent promotion of course, I'm assuming they don't so the overhead is covered by the legitimate activities of the company. Otherwise I'd have to take out overhead.) That doesn't seem very punitive to me.

The bailouts will stop when the pressure to pay is exceeded by the pressure from taxpayers (in Germany) to stop paying.

2-Oct-12 World View -- American Express fined $112.5 million

by John » Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:52 pm

2-Oct-12 World View -- American Express fined $112.5 million over massive consumer fraud

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American Express fined $112.5 million over massive consumer fraud
Subprime mortgages are back in volume
EU finance ministers appear ready to give in to Athens rioters
Syria's Foreign Minister gives farcical speech at the United Nations


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