“1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”
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#2What a nice propaganda piece on Western Union, enabler of scammers worldwide and reliably preying on those disenfranchised parts of the human population we've decided can't have debit accounts.
Re: “1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”
#3The discussion of "typologies" doesn't discuss what happens when they trigger false positives. Essentially government pressure forces Western Union to be much more restrictive on it's compliance rules. Do they reject hundreds of transactions for each criminal transaction it catches? How much does this disenfranchise customers?
Just one more step on the road to legitimizing bitcoins.
Re: “1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”
#4Western Union is really good as a reliable indicator that a transaction is a scam.
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#5What a nice propaganda piece on Western Union, enabler of scammers worldwide and reliably preying on those disenfranchised parts of the human population we've decided can't have debit accounts.
So you think humanity has a primary right to bank accounts?
You want to force private entities (banks) to work with an obviously unreliable subset of the population? How do you prevent money laundering if you can't reasonably identify your clients?
What exactly is your solution?
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#6...and they are an "unreliable subset of the population" because...???
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#7What a nice propaganda piece on Western Union, enabler of scammers worldwide and reliably preying on those disenfranchised parts of the human population we've decided can't have debit accounts.
So you think humanity has a primary right to bank accounts? You want to force private entities (banks) to work with an obviously unreliable subset of the population? How do you prevent money laundering if you can't reasonably identify your clients? What exactly is your solution?
Solution? To what exact problem for crying shame?
You must be highly delusional to think refugees are the money laundering kingpins. And of course there are steps underway to ensure everyone can have a basic debit account:
http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/financial_services/bank_accoun...
It's no different from access to water, housing, electricity, information, ..
Re: “1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”
#8What a nice propaganda piece on Western Union, enabler of scammers worldwide and reliably preying on those disenfranchised parts of the human population we've decided can't have debit accounts.
So you think humanity has a primary right to bank accounts? You want to force private entities (banks) to work with an obviously unreliable subset of the population? How do you prevent money laundering if you can't reasonably identify your clients? What exactly is your solution?
>So you think humanity has a primary right to bank accounts? You want to force private entities (banks) to work with an obviously unreliable subset of the population?
Yeah, that's what's already the case here in Austria. It essentially means that if you don't have a bank account (and you're not in an ongoing litigation with the bank in question), then a bank MUST accept your application for a basic bank account.
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#9>A warrant application filed in the investigation detailed how “pickup operators”—middlemen who specialized in accepting and aggregating the transfers—would team with Western Union agents willing to overlook fake IDs in exchange for bribes and commissions.
Let's be real, you don't need to bribe anyone to pass a fake ID at WU.
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