In case you missed it, I was on CNBC’s personal finance show On The Money on Friday. You can watch the second Web Extra video here. I offered the following year-end tax tips to help consumers:

CNBC’s “On the Money” wants consumers to know how to protect themselves from mainstream business opportunity scams and multi-level marketing schemes that could cost the average consumer hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Today I received some interesting information on United First Financial, the company selling the $3,500 Money Merge Account. Here is a listing of all UFF agents (warning: large file download), showing that there are 59,703 agents on the rolls. The […]

Haven’t gotten enough of the cold hard reality that United First Financial’s MMA is inferior to a very simple (and free!) do-it-yourself prepayment of your mortgage (which only requires you to pay extra on your mortgage once a month)? Joe […]

The Los Angeles Times did an article this week on consumer scams thriving during difficult economic times. I think their observations and comments were right on the money! If the searches consumers are using to get to my site are […]

Guest post by Joe Taxpayer As I looked at multiple United First Financial agents’ sites, I found the common thread was the claim that one simply can’t do this on their own, that the shifting of funds from a checking […]

A comment today by one of our readers on this thread prompted me to take a look at the United First Financial money back guarantee. If you’re a customer of UFF, good luck trying to get your money back. Sure, […]

One of our readers posted this, and it’s brilliant. It is the simplest possible way to break down what United First Financial is selling with its Money Merge Account. Question for the consumer: Would you rather pay $0 to save […]

I’ve been critical of the United First Financial Money Merge Account for a few months now. My critique is simple: The program is not worth $3,500. It’s worth less than $100. All the MMA does is direct you to use […]

Guest post by Craig Hansen The fine folks at United First Financial (UFF) have come out with a new version of their Money Merge Account (MMA). It’s version 4, and it’s marketed as something that uses… factorial math! And promoters […]