Eon will automatically move hundreds of thousands of energy customers on its popular capped tariff that ends in October onto an expensive alternative capped deal.
Tory leader David Cameron says victims of "unfair" bank charges must be compensated "quickly and fairly". He'll also consider automatic payback of all charges, which could total over £10 billion.
Millions of self assessment taxpayers are being encouraged to pay their tax in advance by the Government. However, you could be missing out on hundreds of pounds in interest via this option.
Fraudsters are increasingly targeting the public by stealing their card details to pay for illegal mobile top-ups. Such crimes are normally a pre-cursor to much larger raids on victims' accounts.
24 August 2009
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