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

Re:Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M by wheelerwj on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:21PM (#13465605)

First time user of WU sending more than $500 to Nigeria or Ghana seems pretty reasonable to me. Let alone thousands or tens of thousands.

At the end of the day though, scammers will be scammers and victims will be victims. You can't prevent everything but you can still try harder than WU.

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Re:Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M by Ar-Curunir on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:40PM (#13465782)

Really? At least you would test that the system works before handing over so much of your money to them, right?

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Re:Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M by wheelerwj on Monday January 23, 2017 @07:25PM (#13467700)

you'd be surprised. A particularly common scam involves having the victim send 2000-2500 and the going for smaller amounts, $250-1000, on rounds 2+.

I'm not particularly well versed in romances scams but I've heard they can start in the similar range and then escalate into 5 figures quickly.

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