If your lender:
- Offered you a cash loan,
- Did not give you paperwork,
- Added huge amounts of interest or APR to your loan,
- Have threatened you,
- Have they taken your bank card, benefit card, passport, watch or other valuables from you,
or
- You are you scared of people finding out
they may be a loan shark.
You are not in trouble if you have borrowed cash or have been paying back a loan from an illegal money lender, the loan shark is. They are the people committing a crime, not you.
Report a loan shark, call Stop Loan Sharks on 0300 555 2222 or complete the form on their website: www.stoploansharks.co.uk/
Stop Loan Sharks is the England Illegal Money Lending Team of National Trading Standards