SINGAPORE – Loan sharks are recruiting runners on Telegram, a messaging platform popular with young people, and promising to pay them handsomely for harassing debtors. The Straits Times responded to an ad that listed a Singapore phone number, which was seeking individuals looking to “earn fast money”. It belonged to a WhatsApp business account, and the individual behind it offered...
In one advertisement in a Telegram chat group, the number listed led to a WhatsApp business account, with the individual behind it offering $350 per paint-splattered door.SINGAPORE – Loan sharks are recruiting runners on Telegram, a messaging platform popular with young people, and promising to pay them handsomely for harassing debtors.
Loan shark runners are paid to harass debtors, typically by splashing paint on doors and scrawling threatening messages on walls close to where the debtors live or work, to humiliate and pressure them into settling their debts. Introducing himself as Roger, he said that runners can earn as much as they want. He then sent a video via WhatsApp, which he claimed was taken by one of his runners.
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