Fast cash: Easy Finance Club offers quick cash for those with poor credit records, but at outrageous rates of interest.
Easy Finance Club is charging £65 on loans of £100 taken out over 28 days, which was calculated today at the equivalent of a whopping 68,300 per cent APR.
This is despite Easy Finance's website claiming it has a typical Representative APR of 3,300 per cent.
Incredibly, a loan of £100 over 28 days at its rate of interest would result in a total repayment of £67,187 were it paid back over a year. Though Easy Finance customers are only allowed to take out loans for up to 28 days.
It is not the only discrepancy that can be found on the website. Easy Finance's 'APR Explained' page stating that a £100 loan taken out over 14 days would result in a £124 repayment, yet the calculator on the front page says the total would come to £135.
The APR level at the biggest and best-known payday lender, Wonga, pales in comparison at 4,217 per cent. A £100 loan taken out over 28 days with Wonga would rack up an extra charge of £34.64 in interest and fees.
Easy Finance Club is a 'trading style' - or brand name - of a larger firm called Web Loans Processing Ltd, which uses 'Community Payday' as another brand.
Both firms have come onto the radar of guarantor lender Amigo Loans, which has calculated that the actual APR for both websites, taking into account compound interest, stands at 68,300 per cent for Easy Finance and 38,520 per cent for Community Payday.
A call to the Web Loans Processing's hotline number on its website however takes you through to Toothfairy Finance, another short-term loan provider which charges £9 per week for every £100 borrowed.
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