Minnesotans burned by far-away online lenders
Predatory lenders from Malta, the West Indies and distant places lure borrowers into loans with annualized interest rates topping 1,500 percent.
Jeff Hargarten is an intern at MinnPost and a journalism student at the University of Minnesota.
Predatory lenders from Malta, the West Indies and distant places lure borrowers into loans with annualized interest rates topping 1,500 percent.
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By Jeff Hargarten
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