Debt advice that may leave you owing even more money

The FCA says that some unregulated firms collect people’s details, through cold calling or online adverts, sometimes impersonating debt advice charities or debt collectors, and pass this information on to firms offering debt solutions that you pay for. A quick search online will throw up lots of businesses offering ways to clear your debt, not…

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A day after Christmas in 2020, a 28-year-old Chinese man lifted his sleeping ex-girlfriend’s eyelids, scanned her iris to unlock Alipay and transferred $24,000 to pay off his gambling debts

A day after Christmas 2020, a 28-year-old Chinese man who was drowning in debt from gambling and had broken up recently, wanted to meet her sick girlfriend. He went to her home and then allegedly tricked her into sleep, then he used his ex’s fingerprint to unlock her phone, then lifted her iris to unlock…

Los Angeles County Partners Aim to Screen Hospital Patients for Financial Aid Automatically, Without Applications, by January

Los Angeles County health officials are working with partners on a system that could qualify low-income hospital patients for financial aid automatically, without the forms many people never fill out. The plan, reported by KFF Health News and NPR, would make screening software available to hospitals in the county, which has 88 acute care hospitals.…

Woman Marries 14 Times for Gambling Debt

From penguin poop melting Antarctica’s ice to a woman marrying 14 times to fund her gambling addiction Also, discover the return of wild horses to Kazakhstan after nearly 200 years, watch tree climbers compete in a unique championship, and take a look at Toyota’s robotic chair that can climb stairs. In today’s ‘News With A…