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“1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”

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Re: “1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”

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Post by mjmahone17 »

readams wrote: post #4

Western Union is really good as a reliable indicator that a transaction is a scam.

Sure: for someone with a bank account and who rarely has a reason to make international transactions, that's true, mainly because WU makes bank-free international money transfers easy. But that would be true of anyone you don't personally know asking you to send money internationally.

But just because the majority of the time you see WU mentioned is for a scam doesn't mean the majority of transactions they are involved with are scams or fraud.

Re: “1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”

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Post by theWatcher37 »

ginko wrote: post #8
fastball wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. See…

That is idiotic. The state forcing a business to accept a customer no matter their records?

Re: “1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”

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Post by itissid »

On a side note, Remittances are a huge boon. The largest source of foreign direct investment(FDI) (by far) in India are remittances[1]. Even today, after many years of inflation, the PPP of my salary(affording me a middle class status here) here is 10-20 times of what it was,and would still be, in India.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_India#Remittances

Re: “1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”

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Post by gsylvie »

ginko wrote: post #8
fastball wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. See…

Same in Canada. But by "basic" it really is basic. No online banking, no chequing. In-branch transactions with a teller only!

Re: “1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”

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Post by isubkhankulov »

revelation wrote: post #2

What 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.

what about apple gift cards? heavily used by scammers. are you attacking Apple because malicious users abuse their stored value cards?

Re: “1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”

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Post by cmac2992 »

Interesting to see all the hate in the comments. I don't really know much about WU except for what I experienced when I volunteered at a refugee camp on lesvos. Western Union was a lifeline for many people. It was very common for people to get sent $ from friends and family for a ticket to the mainland or for some supplies. Asking for directions to the western union was one of the most common questions I received.

Re: “1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”

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Post by evook »

theWatcher37 wrote: post #12
ginko wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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. See…

That is idiotic. The state forcing a business to accept a customer no matter their records?

Yes, also in Germany.

Re: “1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”

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Post by hk__2 »

theWatcher37 wrote: post #12
ginko wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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. See…

That is idiotic. The state forcing a business to accept a customer no matter their records?

It’s a simple account where all you can do is put money and get it back. There’s no overdraft.

We have the same law in France and the EU recently passed a similar directive.

Re: “1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”

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Post by sitepodmatt »

theWatcher37 wrote: post #12
ginko wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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. See…

That is idiotic. The state forcing a business to accept a customer no matter their records?

That same state and other federal employers probably also mandate recipients of welfare or wages must be paid into a bank account. They get the upside of this so universal access to a basic bank account is a far compromise. Its insane imo that im forced to do business with a private bank for practically 99% of jobs including those of my own government.

Re: “1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”

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Post by revelation »

isubkhankulov wrote: post #15
revelation wrote: post #2

What 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.

what about apple gift cards? heavily used by scammers. are you attacking Apple because malicious users abuse their stored value cards?

I don't know, what about Apple Gift Cards? And what, for that matter, about Samsung smartphones? What exactly is a non sequitur?
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