Payday loan ripoffs, renovation scams targeted as province tallies $1M in restitution to protect consumers

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A home renovator sent to prison for repeatedly scamming customers, the first-ever conviction of a payday lender for charging an illegal interest rate and door-to-door furnace sellers banned for using misleading contracts: these are three examples highlighted by the Alberta government as it laid out the actions it took to protect consumers in the past year.


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