Colorado cinema shooting to endorse 2,090% loans
A payday lender has been exposed for using pictures of celebrities and people that have appeared in the news next to reviews on its website - including one photograph of a 24-year-old woman killed in the cinema shooting in Colorado last year. The Payday Angels website used the photographs next to positive endorsements of the firm’s services, personal finance magazine Moneywise found. Pictures of BBC online dragon and businesswoman Julie Meyer, US comedian Rosie O’Donnell and a social media expert who works at Twitter were also used by the payday lender. Payday lenders are designed to be a temporary solution to tide people over until the next wage packet but they often come with high annual rates of interest. Payday Angels charges its customers 2,090 per cent APR. The aspiring sports-broadcaster Jessica Ghawi was among 12 victims gunned down in a Colorado cinema during a late-night screening of the new Batman film last July......Read more here