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smallmancontrovtoday at 3:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

Now that you mention it, I believe I have seen a couple of red flagged calls, but I still get ~3 calls a day from a very aggressive business loan spammer, it's always a new number and never flagged.


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9cb14c1ec0today at 3:51 PM

That's because they are bulk purchasing numbers from voip providers, cycling through probably hundreds per day.

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DrewADesigntoday at 4:28 PM

Anybody desperate enough to consider telemarketed merchant cash advances (MCAs) should look into them very carefully first. The contracts often have stipulations that allow them to draw money from your bank account at will, penalty interest rates that jump up 400% APR, have been known to use mafia enforcers to violently extract payments, and the list goes on. There was a more perfect union video (titled something about texting back a loan shark) with a bracing, if sensationalized, look at some of the worst ones.