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A maid's horror tale: Four moneylenders, four loan sharks, and a $4,500 debt
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Within a month, she had debts of around $4,500 in total from four licensed moneylenders and four loan sharks, some of whom started to demand their money back.
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Marcia Lee
SINGAPORE - When her brother lost his civil engineer job in Qatar, Filipino maid Natalia (not her real name), 30, took it upon herself to help him clear a debt of around 40,000 pesos (S$1,066) owed to an employment agency.
Six months later in October last year, she found herself further in debt when her husband cheated on her and left her to repay a loan of around $400 from loan sharks.
