Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M

Re:Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M by TeMPOraL on Monday January 23, 2017 @02:05PM (#13464895)

> As far as the paying procedures go, the only thing I needed to check it's the recipients name. I couldn't pay a "John Doe" wire to a "Joseph Doe".

Reminds me of a story my SO told me once. For some reason I can't recall now her company was to get some money via Western Union. She was supposed to pick it up, but the sender refused because she had a polish character ("ł") in her surname and they believed that WU won't be able to handle such transfer. For that reason, the company had to send someone else to pick up the transfer.

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Re:Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M by ucy on Monday January 23, 2017 @05:52PM (#13466957)

The recipient name was always in "ALL-CAPS". I think they couldn't handle even ascii, maybe they use some telegraph era codepage.

Also, for what I remember, you can't send a wire to a company via WU. The recipient must always be a person.

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Re:Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M by TeMPOraL on Monday January 23, 2017 @06:02PM (#13467045)

I might ask SO for the details again, but yeah - that's how I understand why they wanted a particular employee to be the recipient of the transfer.

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