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Wonga apologises to MP for abusive tweets
Short-term lender Wonga has issued an apology to Labour MP Stella Creasy after one of its employees posted abusive comments on social networking site Twitter. The anti-payday lender campaigner was attacked by an anonymous Twitter account that was later traced to Wonga, which called her a “self-serving egomaniac” and accused her of being “mental”. Luke Manning, editor of the OpenWonga website, offered the MP an “unreserved apology” for the incident in a blog post.....Read more here on this story: Wonga apologises to MP for abusive tweetsYou must be logged in to post a comment.
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Staff at controversial payday loans firm Wonga branded an MP campaigning against the company ‘mental’ in an anonymous Twitter attack. Stella Creasy, a shadow home affairs minister, was also labelled ‘nuts’, ‘a raving self-publicist’ and a ‘self-serving egomaniac’ in posts from a now closed Twitter account traced back to the firm’s offices. The online slurs were made after she accused Wonga of ‘legal loan sharking’ for offering short-term loans of up to £1,000 with a typical annual rate of interest of 4,214 per cent. Company computers were also allegedly used to post anonymous comments on blogs critical of its practices and to delete criticism from its Wikipedia page...Read more here: Wonga apologises after employee uses Twitter to attack Labour critic of pay-day loans
Payday lender has printed flyers promoting a family finances fair organised by slighted MP Stella Creasy. Wonga will promote a debt advice clinic being held by anti-payday loans campaigner and MP Stella Creasy as a goodwill gesture following attacks on the MP by a Wonga employee. The Walthamstow Winter Family Finances Fair, to be held in Creasy's constituency on 24 November 2012, will offer information on affordable credit as well as debt advice. Wonga has faced mounting criticism for targeting low-income customers with short-term loans charging an annualised interest rate of 4,214%. Creasy said: "I asked them to promote the event to local residents because I have seen the damage caused by the payday loans industry to people in my constituency. This is justice in action." The online lender has paid for 2,000 flyers for the event to be printed and distributed by a third party on 23 November 2012, and has also taken out an advert promoting the event in the weekly Waltham Forest Independent freesheet paper. Neither have any mention of Wonga or feature its branding.....Read more here: Wonga promotes Walthamstow debt event as apology to MP
Walthamstow in London is an area just a-like with bad debts, as such.........I Reckon
Bonkers'Wonga' has just shown a torch up the city's ass and splashed themselves all over the walls of the burrow with FREE Advertising for promotion to do this for them. Come on, 'reject' the hand-out from these scum money makers!