Posted by: Barbara Anthony, Undersecretary of the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation Losing weight is not an easy task. It takes hard work, diet and exercise. Many people like to think there’s a shortcut to losing weight, and there are plenty of entities   …Continue Reading No Such Thing as Free Diet Help

Posted by: Barbara Anthony, Undersecretary of the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation   Yesterday morning we officially kicked Project Credit Smarts, our effort to inform and engage college students on the issues of credit card and debt management (the photo above is of   …Continue Reading Educating Students on Credit and Debt a Team Effort

Posted by: Barbara Anthony, Undersecretary of the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation The answer to the above question, shockingly, is in the credit-card statements mailed each month to Boston-area college students. According to our estimate, college students in and around the city carry   …Continue Reading Where Can You Find a Half-Billion Dollars?

Posted by: Barbara Anthony, Undersecretary of the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation Your cell phone bill is likely just a shadow of its former self, and while companies may be saving bucks on printing and mailing, customers are losing convenience and an accustomed   …Continue Reading Paying for What Used to Be Free

Posted by: Barbara Anthony, Undersecretary of the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation Stephen Adams, the former New England small-business advocate for the U.S. Small Business Administration, wrote an op-ed piece in today’s Boston Business Journal discussing our amended Data Security regulations. Give it   …Continue Reading Support for Data Security Regulation Changes

Posted by: Barbara Anthony, Undersecretary of the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation The other day, a friend of mine forwarded to me a classic e-mail phishing scam, the bank account that has been flagged for security reasons. This one, however, isn’t really one   …Continue Reading That May Not Be Your Bank E-Mailing You