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High Cost Payday Lenders Advertise Everywhere Payday loans can be tempting. Advertisements promising money to "tide you over until your next paycheck" appear at check cashing outlets, in pawn shops, within the classified ads and increasingly, online. Cyberspace is the new marketing frontier for payday loans with check-based lenders promoting their services through pop-up ads, in junk e-mail and on Web sites. While those "cash until payday" services sound helpful, consumers need to know the risks. Cash-strapped consumers can find themselves enmeshed in an endless cycle of repeated borrowing at extremely high costs.
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International Matchmaking: As Successful As Advertised? As Internet matchmaking services become more main stream, more suitors apparently are expanding their pool of potential mates beyond their country's borders. There are at least 200 matchmaking agencies in the U.S. that broker marriages between American men and foreign women, arranging up to 6,000 unions a year. Unlike domestic dating agencies that offer their services to both sexes, brokers of foreign marriages do not typically target their services to American women seeking a spouse from abroad.
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