This account pays £5 a month credit interest - regardless of the amount held on deposit.

Now, she said, she asks accounts to pay her with a credit card.

An account starts with $1.00 and pays 100 percent interest per year.

Supposedly if I was made dead, the account would trigger and pay the killers.

Nationally, these accounts have been paying an average of around 5.75 percent since late 1987.

The account pays interest, and is being fed a steady trickle of money.

Today almost six out of 10 accounts (59pc) don't pay interest at all.

Some one-year accounts pay even higher rates, but they have to be linked to a current account.

Medicare beneficiaries would use the accounts to pay medical bills not covered by the insurance.

They could use the accounts to pay premiums for any type of health insurance.