Loan sharks go online to recruit teens

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FACEBOOK, in online games, coffee shops and schools.

These are the places loan sharks are striking at to get hold of teenagers to do the dirty work of distributing their name cards and fliers advertising their illegal services.

One 13-year-old student told The New Paper that she got the job after responding to an advertisement made on Facebook during the school holidays.

She dialled the number and was instructed to meet at an MRT station, where she was given a stack of name cards by a woman and made to sign a "job contract".