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  2. Better Business Bureau Issues Mea Culpa for Pay-to-Play Ratings

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    The Better Business Bureau has issued a mea culpa over a series of egregious missteps in its ratings system that included giving top grades to two fake companies set up to prove the organization ...

  3. Better Business Bureau (BBB) complaints and accreditation ...

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    With a legacy of more than 100 years, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) is the go-to watchdog for evaluating businesses and charities. The nonprofit organization maintains a massive database of ...

  4. Criticism of credit scoring systems in the United States

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    The non-profit organization Student Debt Crisis along with Summer, a social impact startup that helps student debt holders published a national survey in 2018 that found 59% of respondents were prevented from making large purchases, 56% from buying a home, and 42% from buying a car. 58% reported that their credit scores had declined due to the ...

  5. Credit scorecards - Wikipedia

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    Most empirically derived credit scoring systems have between 10 and 20 variables. [6] Application scores tend to be dominated by credit bureau data which typically amounts to over 80% of the predictive power compared to 60% in the late 1980s [6] for UK scorecards. Indeed, there has been an increasing trend to minimize applicant or non ...

  6. Better Business Bureau - Wikipedia

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    The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is an American private, 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization founded in 1912. BBB's self-described mission is to focus on advancing marketplace trust, [2] consisting of 92 independently incorporated local BBB organizations in the United States and Canada, coordinated under the International Association of Better Business Bureaus (IABBB) in Arlington, Virginia.

  7. Better Business Bureau Admits Mistakes Were Made on Pay-For ...

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  8. 'Be wary:' FBI warns shoppers of holiday scams as Black ...

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    In an effort to protect the public from falling prey to scammers as they do their holiday shopping, the FBI has offered some keys ways to avoid any potential funny business, whether you happen to ...

  9. Credit score in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The utilization ratio is the amount owed divided by the amount extended by the creditor and the lower it is the better a FICO rating, in general. So if a person has one credit card with a used balance of $500 and a limit of $1,000 as well as another with a used balance of $700 and $2,000 limit, the average ratio is 40 percent ($1,200 total used ...