The number of cases when credit companies’ clients try to take credit with false documents has increased recently.

Credit company Jet Finance International director Ivan Hristanov said that the company had dozens of such attempts every day.

Cheaters pay 100 leva to receive forged stolen identity card, including picture replacement, Hristanov said as quoted by investor.bg. One can sign contracts and receive credits with the false identity card.

In case of lost personal documents, one should immediately inform the police, Hristanov said.

Nearly 78 per cent of consumers do not consider buying on credit a sign of poverty, according to a survey of 800 people, investor.bg said.

A total of 60 per cent of people questioned said that they were not aware of the various forms of credit and the conditions for taking credit.

Nearly 50 per cent of the people asked do not use credit and 39 per cent have no intentions to use credit in the next one to two years.

The annual expenditure of consumer credits in Bulgaria is 16 to 17 per cent, Hristanov said.