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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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