A federal judge has temporarily halted the operations of an online payday lender at the request of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which claims the company illegally deposited payday loans and withdrew millions of dollars in fees from consumer checking accounts.
The bureau said the Hydra Group used information bought from online lead generators to access consumers’ accounts, then used falsified loan documents to claim the consumers had agreed to phony online payday loans.
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