Avoid the Loan Sharks

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/

 

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simoncripwell@warwickshire.gov.uk

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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

email. simoncripwell@warwickshire.gov.uk

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