Western Union is a global leader in money transfer and message services, with a history of pioneering service dating back more than 150 years.

Western Union continues today to help consumers and businesses transfer money or make payments using money orders and other electronic systems. Consumers can quickly and easily transfer money to more than 170,000 Western Union Agent locations in over 190 countries worldwide - the largest network of its kind. Western Union also markets more than one quarter billion money orders every year.

Popular money laundering tool

Western Union always advises its customers not to send money to someone that they have never met in person, especially if that person is in Nigeria. Despite its efforts in increasing customers' awareness of the issue, Western Union provides one of the most popular services for internet fraud from scammers. Western Union has been required to maintain records of pay-out locations to the criminals who launder the money but this information may only be obtained through the use of a subpoena. Often pay-out location information is useless since there are no extradition treaties with Nigeria. Hence 419 and romance scammers continue to receive funds via Western Union confident in the knowledge that money lost to Nigerian scammers through Western Union is almost always unrecoverable.

New security policies and customer complaints

Western Union has begun blocking transactions based on suspicion of terrorist connections, as a part of the company's intimate involvement with the War on Terror. In practice, this has often meant denying service to senders who specify recipients with Arabic-sounding names. Transactions which do not involve persons with such names will sometimes be denied as well, based on criteria which the company refuses to disclose. Currently, transfers sent from the Western Union web site require telephone confirmation of the sender's identity. On occasion, the transfer will inexplicably fail. Western Union's customer service will inform the sender that the transaction "does not meet our requirements." If details are requested, no information other than the fact that their disclosure is forbidden will be given. The total cost of the transaction, however, is still charged to the sender's bank card, to be refunded after several days. Numerous customers have reported this problem.



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