Improved state and federal laws have reduced the rate of predatory lending by most brick and mortar payday loan companies, but online payday loans operations continue to pose a risk for fraud and ...

Lorain County Prosecutor J.D. Tomlinson is warning residents about a recent scam attempt targeting a local resident, according to a news release. The scammer posed as Kyle Brooks, a fake investigator ...

In 2017, the federal government was poised to give low-income consumers a respite from the myriad abuses and rip-offs visited on them by the payday lending industry. The Consumer Financial Protection ...

Waco residents should be wary of telephone callers claiming to be collecting delinquent payday loans, local authorities say. The callers often claim to be from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. NEW YORK — An appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction and 10-year sentence for a man who ran a $220 million predatory ...

The Better Business Bureau last week issued a nationwide alert to consumers to warn them about phony debt collectors that are calling consumers, claiming that they defaulted on a "payday" loan, and ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday it charged a data broker operation with selling payday loan applicants' financial information to scammers who took in millions of ...