Warwickshire Trading Standards Service are supporting the
England Illegal Money Lending Team's Christmas Loan Shark Awareness
Campaign.Illegal money lenders, otherwise know as loan sharks, target vulnerable people and charge extortionate levels of interest for the relatively small amounts of money they loan to their victims and, when their victims fail to pay up, they use intimidation and violence.
Around 20% of people who turn to a loan shark, do so to pay for Christmas.
Through
enforcement action, awareness raising and education we aim to put an
end to this callous crime and encourage the public to celebrate the
season without turning to an illegal money lender.
A
suspected loan shark was recently arrested in Stratford upon Avon
following an Illegal Money Lending Team investigation with the
assistance of Warwickshire Trading Standards.
For more information visit: http://news.warwickshire.gov.uk/blog/2012/11/28/dont-get-sharked-this-christmas/
The
email alert system is a quick, simple and cost effective means by which
Warwickshire Trading Standards can alert interested individuals,
community organisations, businesses, charities and others to the latest
Trading Standards issues/scams etc.
Please feel free to cascade this information to whom-ever you feel appropriate (including using the information in your newsletters/websites etc.).
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For more information on scams, visit: www.warwickshire.gov.uk/scams
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Simon Cripwell
Trading Standards Officer
Warwickshire Trading Standards Service
Communities
Warwickshire County Council
Old Budbrooke Road Warwick CV35 7DP
tel. 01926 414039
mob. 07771 975570
My normal working days are Monday to Thursday
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