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RWRDS Daily Update – February 28, 2024 Feb 29th
New Amex Offers statement credit for Turo and Langham Hotels launches Brilliant to replace their 1865 program. Check out today's points & miles updates here:
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This Week in RWRDS: April 13 – 19, 2024 + MORE Apr 19th
This week we discuss how credit card reward charts rarely provide good value for economy class flights to Europe, look at a card bonus that can provide 2 flights to Europe and more in our weekly credit card and loyalty rewards newscast! Watch This Week in RWRDS here: Listen to This Week in RWRDS her.... More »
RWRDS Daily Update – August 14, 2023 + MORE Aug 15th
Stack Prepaid Mastercard will be discontinued as of September 11, 2023, a new Amex Offers statement credit for SkipTheDishes and catch up on This Week in RWRDS. Check out today's points & miles updates here:
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Award Availability Alert: Fly Virgin Atlantic from Toronto to London for only 12,000 Membership Rewards points Mar 17th
There is an excellent opportunity to use American Express Membership Rewards to fly on Virgin Atlantic’s new Toronto to London route which launches on March 30. By utilizing two transfer options and a bonus on one of those, you can make your way across the Atlantic in economy class for only 12.... More »
October 30 Update: Amex introduces online insurance claim submissions, 250 points for joining SCENE, WestJet adds St. John's-Ft. Lauderdale flight + MORE Oct 31st
American Express has taken a great step for their cards that offer insurance benefits! Now you can submit claims for some of the most commonly used coverages online. The first three insurance claims you can submit online are Buyers Assurance (the extension of manufacturer's warranty), Purchase P.... More »
Kids new targets of identity theft
– canoe.ca
In the duplicitous world of fraud, it could be called the “original SIN.” A parent applies for a social insurance number (SIN) for her child in order to open a Registered Retirement Savings Plan, but unless the number is protected, it can be used to create a completely new identity to apply for credit.
Apr 10 Update: Hilton HHonors 2014 Category Changes (they’re not bad!), Alaska raises redemption rates for travel on Delta, 14 new bonuses
– RewardsCanada.ca
Hilton HHonors announces their 2014 category changes and the Alaska Airlines-Delta war continues News, Tips & TricksWe’ve updated our “Which Credit Card earns the most Aeroplan Miles” Infographic and feature for 2014. Check it out!Hilton HHonors released their hotel category changes for 2014 and the changes are very mild when you compare them to their drastic devaluation last year! A total of 14 hotels are moving down in their redemption category (some even drop 2 categories!) while only 25 are moving up by one or two categories. These hotels account for less than 1% of the Hilton portfolio and none of them are in Canada. The changes take place on April 15 but you can see them all on Hilton’s site here.Alaska Airlines will be raising the amount of miles required for Mileage Plan award flights on Delta Airlines. The new amounts take effect on May 6. The majority of redemption options from domestic to international travel are going up. This is just the latest development in the big fight going on for Seattle between these two airlines…The Heartbleed Bug: Should Online Banking Customers Worry?
– ratesupermarket.ca
You’ve likely seen the headlines regarding the Heartbleed Bug, an Internet security issue that targets private information shared over the web.
The bug makes vulnerable a version of Open Secure Socket Layer technology, a very common method used by an estimated two thirds of websites to protect users’ personal info such as passwords and transactional data.
How Does Heartbleed Work?
The discovery was made by a team from Internet security company Codenomicon. From their blog:
“The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users.”
If you’ve ever submitted your credit card details or a password online, you’ve likely noticed a small lock icon appear in your browser bar and “HTTPS” preceding the web address…
Researchers have observed hacking groups conducting automated scans of the internet in search of web servers vulnerable to the theft of passwords, confidential communications and credit card numbers, due to the Heartbleed bug.
Which Credit Card Earns the Most Aeroplan Miles? The 2014 Update!
– RewardsCanada.ca
Quite possibly the most popular post on the Rewards Canada blog is from April 2012 and that post is titled Which Credit Card Earns the Most Aeroplan Miles? which included our very first Infographic. As we all know at the start of this year there was a major shake up with Aeroplan credit cards as TD took over as the primary issuer of Aeroplan co-branded credit cards. This of course meant that we needed to update our infographic, which we have done below as well as taking the liberty of expanding it to include the sign up bonuses for all the cards.This Infographic pulls data from the full Rewards Canada feature with 10 different spending scenarios which can be found here.I hope you enjoy this updated chart and as always feel free to leave your comments below.Now as we state in the graphic, those are the ‘standard’ sign up bonuses for these cards but you can actually get higher sign up bonuses for several of the American Express cards via the ‘refer-a-friend’ option and those cards and bonuses are as follows:The Platinum Card from American Express: 60,000 Aeroplan Miles (awarded as Membership Rewards points) when you charge $1,000 in purchases to your Card in your first 3 months of CardmembershipAmerican Express AeroplanPlus Platinum Card: 51,000 Aeroplan Miles(Earn 25,000 miles upon first use of an approved Card and earn an additional 26,000 miles when you make $1,000 in purchases in the first three months of Cardmembership)American Express AeroplanPlus Gold Card: 30,000 Aeroplan Miles (when you charge $500 in purchases to your Card in the first three months of Cardmembership)You can find more spending scenarios on our site here…
