{
  "id": 3225348,
  "title": "Copycats, not competitors: How fraudulent apps are quietly damaging the online lending industry",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/copycats-not-competitors-how-fraudulent-apps-are-quietly-damaging-the",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-25T07:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Philippine Star Business",
    "slug": "philippine-star-business",
    "url": "https://www.philstar.com/business-as-usual/2026/08/25/2551504/copycats-not-competitors-how-fraudulent-apps-are-quietly-damaging-online-lending-industry"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "It's tempting to see this as a problem that only affects whichever brand happens to be impersonated at a given moment. In reality, the damage spreads much further — and one of its most corrosive effects is something the industry rarely talks about directly: it's warping how the public understands loan pricing.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}