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		<title>Folkia loans &#8211; The stupid man&#8217;s loan!</title>
		<link>http://www.scepticalmind.com/2008/08/06/folkia-loans-the-stupid-mans-loan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lind Mortensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching tv the other day and suddenly this add came up: Mikrolån: Du kan vælge at låne 1.000 kr. eller 2.000 kr. (til Danmarks laveste afgift). Lånet skal tilbagebetales inden 30 dage. Now.. this is obviously Danish. Roughly translated it means: Micro loans: You can choose to loan 1000 Danish Kroners or 2000 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was watching tv the other day and suddenly this add came up:</p>
<blockquote><p>Mikrolån: Du kan vælge at låne 1.000 kr. eller 2.000 kr. (til Danmarks laveste afgift). Lånet skal tilbagebetales inden 30 dage.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now.. this is obviously Danish. Roughly translated it means:</p>
<blockquote><p>Micro loans: You can choose to loan 1000 Danish Kroners or 2000 Danish Kroners (at the lowest rate in Denmark). The loan has to be repaid within 30 days.</p></blockquote>
<p>So let&#8217;s see, how does this work? Well basically, you loan 1000 DKK or 2000 DKK and then repay the money + a fee of either 300 DKK or 450 DKK respectively.. oh yeah, and you have to do all this within 30 days. So basically you loan 2000 DKK and suddenly you&#8217;re 2450 DKK in debt and you have to pay it back within 30 days.. so you go out, have a night on the town, maybe buy a new mobile phone and then you&#8217;re pretty much broke again. So this took maybe 1-2 days and now you have under 30 days to earn 2450 DKK (after taxes of course) and repay those fuckers with that money.</p>
<p><strong>To sum up here:</strong> You begin your month thinking: <em>&#8220;I need money&#8221;</em>. You go to <a title="Folkia Mikrolån" href="http://www.folkia.dk">folkia.dk</a> and apply for a loan of 2000 DKK. You get your money (which actually assumes a bunch of stuff about your current job situation, e.g. a monthly income of over 10000 DKK) and then you immediately start using the money. A few days later you&#8217;ve used the money and now you need to find a way to earn 2450 DKK within 30 days, which in Denmark means around 4600 DKK before taxes for most people. So in all this time, why the hell didn&#8217;t it occur to you to just earn the fucking 2450 DKK in the first place and use the money at the end of the month you fucking retarded piece of shit!</p>
<p>Companies like this one seriously makes me sick! They exploit the stupidity of people who are already in financial trouble and generally lead to a more unstable population of people stressed by debt.</p>
<p>I hope people in Denmark will be smart enough to see through all of this and not make stupid mistakes.</p>
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