There has been a lot of adverts on lately for a company called Lending Stream.
It does exactly what it says on the tin, short term loans especially for people with iffy credit {where have we heard that before amigo's!!!}
Not surprisingly the interest is eye watering, an example is borrow £300 over six months pay back £578 that's almost 100% profit and providing you don't miss a payment.
During the advert it says don't borrow from that slimy toad down the pub, the only difference between the slimy toad and L/S is the latter won't come round and break your legs for none payment......other than that it's exactly the same.
Looked at the reviews for L/S on line and a good % of them singing it's praises are what I'd refer to as "rent a review", people to whom companies pay to put in good reviews convincing the gullible that it's a brilliant company.