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Western Union is really good as a reliable indicator that a transaction is a scam.
by readams 9y ago
Western Union is really good as a reliable indicator that a transaction is a scam.
- mjmahone17 9y agoSure: for someone with a bank account and who rarely has a reason to make international transactions, that's true, mainly because WU makes bank-free international money transfers easy. But that would be true of anyone you don't personally know asking you to send money internationally. But just because the majority of the time you see WU mentioned is for a scam doesn't mean the majority of transactions they are involved with are scams or fraud.
- belorn 9y agoReminds me how from a spam filter perspective, anything written in a non-native language is spam.
- jacquesm 9y agoI've used WU many times to get money to people in remote places. None of those transactions were scams.
- khedoros1 9y agoI think it's a matter of norms and expectations. I've got family in Honduras, and I would consider WU to send some money to them, if the need arose. I wouldn't consider it for a way to pay for something I was trying to buy on Ebay, and I think that's the perspective that a lot of the "SCAM!" comments are written from.
- ams6110 9y agoRight, the reason it's a scam flag is that there is no reversing or refunding a WU transfer. You have no protections like you do when paying by credit card.