Deadbeat Town
Language: en
It all started when I mindlessly clicked a link my roommate sent me. A few minutes later, a notification popped up on my phone. My bank account had a sudden deposit of three hundred bucks. I just stared at the screen, totally bewildered. While I was trying to figure out how to reverse the transaction, an unknown number called. The voice on the other end was cold and aggressive. The guy told me I owed their platform fifteen hundred dollars, and the three hundred I just received was merely the interest. A cold sweat broke out on my neck. I had somehow stumbled into a predatory payday loan…