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

Re:Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M by wonder_er on Monday January 23, 2017 @07:51PM (#13467874)

Then it would just be the HN crowd mad that an organization is secretly passing data to the authorities...

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Re:Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M by CaptainZapp on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:06AM (#13470675)

What, exactly, do you think your bank does when they stumble over transactions that they deem suspicious?

Exactly: They report it to the authotities.

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Re:Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M by PakG1 on Monday January 23, 2017 @09:02PM (#13468234)

At least it would all be just a conspiracy theory espoused by tin foil hats until another Snowden shows up.

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Re:Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M by zeroer on Monday January 23, 2017 @09:53PM (#13468432)

If people couldn't be bothered with the actual Snowden leaks, surveillance of money transfers to Pakistan isn't going to move the needle either.

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