UK Loan Sharks
The research by the government and other agencies estimates that 165,000 to 200,000 people are indebted to loan sharks in the United Kingdom. Loan sharking is treated as a high-level crime by law enforcement, due to its links to organized crime and the serious violence involved. That said, payday loans with high interest rates are legal in many cases, and have been described as "legal loan sharking". Campaign group Debt on our Doorstep was launched in 1999.
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Famous quotes containing the words loan and/or sharks:
“Slight was the thing I bought,
Small was the debt I thought,
Poor was the loan at best—
God! but the interest!”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
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—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)