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MP targeted by Wonga with loan offer
Belfast East MP Naomi Long has revealed online lender Wonga sent her an “unsolicited” marketing letter after it obtained her details from a fraudster. She told MPs in a debate on payday loan companies in the House of Commons on 20 January that she had written to Wonga to ask why she had received the letter. Long announced her intention to pass on her “experiences” to the Financial Conduct Authority and the Information Commissioner’s Office.She said: “I write to it because I was concerned to receive what appeared to be a marketing mailshot, claiming that I had applied for credit with the company, which I had not. It offered me terms on which I could apply for a loan. “Wonga claims that the information of mine that it had possessed had been used fraudulently to try to obtain credit in my name.”....Read more hereTags: None
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