Buy now, pay later schemes increasingly an avenue for financial abuse, report finds

A quarter of financial counsellors surveyed said at least half the women seeking help had been coerced into acquiring BNPL debts

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It started with Afterpay, Phoebe* says.

Over four years, her former partner coerced her into opening 12 buy now, pay later accounts with different providers, which he used to rack up more than $5,000 of debt in her name.

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