{"id":2007,"date":"2015-07-07T12:52:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T12:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2015-07-07T12:52:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T12:52:54","slug":"dorset-police-lightlite-loans-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/2015\/07\/07\/dorset-police-lightlite-loans-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorset Police &#8211; Light\/Lite Loans Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters are targeting individuals who have recently expressed an interest in an online loan. Unsolicited calls are made by fraudsters who appear to be calling from a genuine company. They state that the recently applied for loan has been agreed, but an &#8220;advance fee&#8221; is required before the money can be transferred.<\/p>\n<p>Once these \u201cfees\u201d have been paid, either directly to the fraudsters\u2019 bank accounts or through a money service bureau, they are unrecoverable.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases, fraudsters have asked for multiple upfront \u201cfees\u201d to address issues arising with the loan.<\/p>\n<p>Protect yourself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Authentic credit companies do not charge fees in advance.<\/li>\n<li>Be wary of anyone calling who says they represent a credit company.<\/li>\n<li>Report any instances of a credit company attempting to request fees in advance of a loan to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you believe that you have been a victim of fraud you can report it online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/report_fraud\">http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/report_fraud<\/a> or by telephone 0300 123 2040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters are targeting individuals who have recently expressed an interest in an online loan. Unsolicited calls are made by fraudsters who appear to be calling from a genuine company. They state that the recently applied for loan has been agreed, but an &#8220;advance fee&#8221; is required before the money can be transferred. Once these \u201cfees\u201d&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/2015\/07\/07\/dorset-police-lightlite-loans-alert\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dorset Police &#8211; Light\/Lite Loans Alert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crimewatch","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/logo.gif?fit=121%2C93&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MmHE-wn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 00:39:15","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}