Junk e-mail smells sweet to consumers at MoneyForMail.com

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MoneyForMail.com's users welcome junk-emails as the website pays consumers 20 cents to $2.50 for opening advertisers' e-mail offers. Credit card companies gather and sell consumer information without permission. MoneyForMail asks consumers who want to sign up to fill up a personal profile. Advertisers picks the kind of consumers they want to target. Then, MoneyForMail forwards e-mail offers to the type of consumers selected by advertisers.

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New Web site helps plan for retirement

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A new Internet service will enable employees across the US to tailor their projections of future Social Security benefits without jeopardizing their privacy in any way. The www.ssa.gov/retire site, which was created by the Social Security Administration, is part of a broader effort to help workers plan early for a secure retirement. It provides three calculators of varying complexity that will allow employees to test theoretical scenarios involving the impact of different income levels or retirement at different ages on future Social Security benefits.

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Retailers sell perks of using store credit cards

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Retailers are offering incentives such as invitation to exclusive sales events and lower interest rates to promote their stores' credit-card programs. Store credit cards have languished in consumers' wallets because of high interest rates and limited use. But credit cards from retailers such as J.C. Penney, Sears and Federated Department Stores have been updated to offer more rewards to consumers.

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