{"id":1343,"date":"2011-02-04T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/payday-lender-association-spoof-site\/"},"modified":"2011-02-04T02:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T02:01:00","slug":"payday-lender-association-spoof-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/payday-lender-association-spoof-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Payday lender association spoof site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/b44xAsCJiMA\/payday-lender-associ.html\">Payday lender association spoof site<\/a>: &#8220;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pla-spoof.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/01\/12\/pla-spoof.jpg?resize=600%2C278\" width=\"600\" height=\"278\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Maag of Credit.com wrote about a spoof site called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.predatorylendingassociation.com\/\">Predatory Lending Association<\/a>, which makes fun of those payday lenders that make big profits gouging the working poor.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Predatory Lending Association offers tools including a &#8216;working poor finder,&#8217; which places gun shops, liquor stores and pawn shops on the map and shows would-be investors in payday loan stores the best locations to open new locations. It also gives tips on finding for the most profitable races to discriminate against.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s easy to find the working poor,&#8217; the predatory lenders site says, &#8216;but our studies reveal that a difference in location of even a few city blocks can impact profits by as much as 45%.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The PLA spoof was one of the first websites created by Front Seat, a Seattle-based company that usually makes web tools more earnest than snarky.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.credit.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/a-payday-lender-spoof-that-defies-laws-of-the-internet\/\">Payday Lender Spoof <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=c019b2dcd5184d940a0b9209159bf37a&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=c019b2dcd5184d940a0b9209159bf37a&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/segment-pixel.invitemedia.com\/pixel?code=TechCons&#038;partnerID=167&#038;key=segment\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?resize=0%2C0\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/haku.vizu.com\/a.gif?resize=0%2C0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/b44xAsCJiMA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payday lender association spoof site: &#8220; Christopher Maag of Credit.com wrote about a spoof site called the Predatory Lending Association, which makes fun of those payday lenders that make big profits gouging the working poor. The Predatory Lending Association offers tools including a &#8216;working poor finder,&#8217; which places gun shops, liquor stores and pawn shops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-lF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}