ACE Cash Express officials would not get back telephone phone calls or emails from Fort Worth Weekly looking for comment for this tale.

Baddour said such strategies have now been a longtime practice of this industry. “This began very immediately after the payday financing industry gained its footing,” she said.

Any office of credit Commissioner issued an advisory in 2013 stating that payday loan providers “should not make use of a region attorney’s hot-check unit merely as a method for gathering debt.”

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