Consumer journalist Wendy Knowler’s Watch-outs of the Week 18 January 2021 - 08:29 If you have defaulted on your loans and accounts and you are receiving a barrage of SMSes or calls from debt collectors, here’s what you need to know. Image: 123rf.com/Jason Cox
In this weekly segment of bite-sized chunks of useful information, consumer journalist Wendy Knowler summarises news you can use:
Need a loan? Here’s what not to do
Never has there been more anxiety in “Januworry”, which means it’s feeding frenzy time for loan sharks.
If you type “get a loan” into Google, the searches which come up are heartbreaking: “Get a loan with bad credit/without a job/without a credit check/without a pay slip.”