Authorities are warning consumers about a growing number of fraudulent lenders who are attempting to use the ongoing COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity to prey on borrowers via social media.
Most such scams apparently involve individual lenders who are not registered to provide such services.
The Financial Services Agency has launched an investigation, while cooperating with the National Police Agency to alert the public over the loan scams.
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