It's no secret that college students are inundated with pre-approved credit offers practically from the moment they arrive. What isn't talked about is the financial tsunami that can result when students go a little crazy with their new credit limits. It's a sad story - college students today may enter adult life loaded down with financial burdens that can take years to shake, including student loans and overwhelming credit card debt.

With cards easier to get than at any time in history, and predatory lending practices more the rule than the exception, it's a situation that's poised to get worse with newly tightened bankruptcy laws that make it harder to shed credit card debt. It's easy to say college students who overspend deserve the consequences (just check out some debt forums) but a layer of financial instability in the young-working population could have long lasting negative effects on society as a whole.

You may be eligible to receive a benefit from a class-action settlement if you purchased and paid for a credit score or credit monitoring from ConsumerInfo.com or an Experian Entity between June 17, 1998 and December 27, 2006.

You may be eligible if you entered into an agreement over the Internet with ConsumerInfo.com or an Experian Entity to purchase any Credit Check or Credit Check Monitoring (which were formerly known as CreditCheck® Monitoring Service), Credit Manager (including Yahoo! Credit Manager), Triple Alert, or Triple Advantage credit-monitoring product, or you paid for a credit score sold on a website that also sold one of these credit-monitoring products, between June 17, 1998 and December 27, 2006. Continue Reading ..