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September 21, 2006

10 Ways the Credit Card Firms try to Increase Your Debt

CREDIT card companies want your cash - and they're using every trick in the book to get it.

They're about to become even more inventive - not to say downright devious - now they've been forced to slash their rip-off penalty charges.

The Office of Fair Trading's decision to force them to cut default charges from £30 to £12 will cost banks around £300million a year.

And they are already looking for ways to claw that money back from you.

Free balance transfer deals, for example, are already becoming scarce. But the card sharks have a whole host of tricks and ploys to persuade us to spend more and use our cards more often.

We've rounded up 10 sneaky ways they encourage us to increase our debts...

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