Payday Another Day - Military Personal Loans

Military Personal Loans - The Art Of Attraction

The mission: Discover the secret tactics used by lenders to attract so many soldiers to military personal loans.

The plan: GO deep, deep undercover as a soldier, only to be honorably discharged. Start looking for work near the military base, get hired by a lender offering military loans.

The prize:Financial peace and understanding for all human kind - plus 20 million british pounds for my ultra-incredible services.

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On the inside of military personal loans

Well, I did it. I went through basic training, being sure to watch exactly how today;s young soldiers spend their meager stipends, and soon thereafter I broke a bone in my inner ear honorable discharge. Yet I could hear everything, especially the buzz about military personal loans and how beneficial these soldiers believed them to be, and I got a job at a check cashing store immediately across from the main entrance to the base. The perfect disguise.

But I wasn't alone. The lender in charge of these specific military personal loans staffed his entire office with ex-military personnel - even made them wear uniforms purchased from the Salvation Army! We hung signs on the wall - Aim High! Army of One! - and every young soldier who came into the store looking for a little help was sat down as if they were being recruited for something special, as if a great life lay ahead of them with the use of military personal loans. We were soldiers! Ex-soldiers acting like soldiers, and everyone who entered was told the same story - our military payday loans are fully endorsed by all branches of the U.S. military.

The lies!

Which was a lie of course. Everything about the military loan industry is basically based off a web of deception:

These lenders fool soldiers into believing their only options are to apply with them for military aid.
They hire ex-military personnel - like myself - to work in the shops to further the image of military sponsorship.
They set up shop immediately outside military bases, and target their marketing efforts at the young the weak, the financially strapped - the very people who would not know how to manage military personal loans once in their possession.

It got too much for me - and I almost blew my cover many times. I watched more young soldiers fall to the wayside from military personal loans than all the casualties at the Bay Of Pigs and the raids on Chechnya combined - and it broke my heart. So when the time came to take my exit and report back to base, I left a little present for the lender behind that military personal loan operation: I hacked into his personal accounts and took away all his money! See how he likes it living in a state of eternal debt!