Western Union Scam : How Promptly You Can Spot and Avoid ?
Western union scam is one of the latest scam , these days making rounds all over.
Scam artists for instance , always master mind the swindling tactics through Western Union method of payment.
Most often, in this whole process ,scam artists pretend to be seller , generally selling items at low price to lure the victims. When the victim is trapped with low fraud prices , he asked to wire money through Western Union , where the seller asks for Western Union MTCN or the money transfer number , usually which criminals targets , gains access to any Western Union world wide and buyer never receives anything which he has already paid.
While scammer has to do to collect money that is transferred to them via Western Union is to visit their local Western Union agent, give them the ten-digit money transfer control number (MTCN) Money Transfer control number of the transfer and answer a test question, which is information they will have been given by their victim.
Western union scam can be any form and in any face . It can smoothly spotted out when :
-Things are offered normally , less than market price .
-Winning online auction bid & seller(scammer) will asks for only payments.
A Lottery prize or even sometimes stimulus payment can attract the victim to pay the taxes.
Sometimes low cost interest loans are also sponsored ,but scam artist ask to pay the processing fees in advance .
There fore now the question remains How to Avoid Western Union Scam ?
-Check out the detail service at western credit union website .
-Know whom exactly you are dealing with , in terms of transactions.
-Test Question” feature is designed for emergency situations where the receiver will not have proper identification. It should never be used as additional security to time or delay payment of a transaction.
-Strictly avoid paying for online auction purchases via online.
-Western union doesn’t ask any personal information or any security question in terms of any transactions, therefore do not respond to any question ask by western union .
-Always be careful while dealing with international banking transactions i.e outside countries .
-Better Business Bureau and State Attorney General Office of Consumer Affairs are the best options to be approached ,if some one tries to defraud you .
source : alibaba.com
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April 14th, 2010 at 1:52 am
Is this a scam?
May 14th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Yes it is to late, I fell for one of those scams through Western Union to the tune of $1600. The bogus email address was lindadaws1@gmail,com Linda Dawson was the name she gave. The scam was made via paypal. I dont care if you publish this information. at least others will see what not to do.
June 28th, 2010 at 12:46 am
There was an add about a vehicle On craigslist that seem to be to cheap not to make an offer. I was ask to make the payment via western. There where a couple things it didn’t make sense so I decide not to finish the transaction. I kept serching an notice there are a few more vehicles with similar descriptions. To bad there’s no way to cach this crooks.
June 30th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
My poor wife just got scammed by our “son” (sounded enough like him to fool my wife) that he was detained at the border between Canada and the US without a passport and his buddies had weed in their bags. She needed to wire the money to an international bail bondsmen (covering the US & CDA) but it looked like he would be free to go after the court appearance. He asked his mom not to contact dad as he wanted to explain in person. She did the bank withdrawal and the Western Union wire transfer just before my son texted me and asked if we would be home tonight. The wired money had already been picked up.
August 30th, 2010 at 9:15 am
My husband jean -Francois has just been scam by the group of people who say that you won the Bilgate lottery . we refuse to give then the money that they were asking for so the manage to blocked my yahoo mail they are now using and pretend to be me asking my friend and relatives of money.
They felt on my husband online and did that unfortunately my husband fell into their trap and send then the money because the person on the other end said that i was having trouble with my friend and that i needed money to help that friend so he send the money and it is today that i am seeing the email and this is is bad.the name that they gave to transfer the money is Miriam Cisse, Ivory Cost so be aware people are out there using someone -email to scam you.
August 30th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
if you get an email like this! Don’t respond! It’s a scam!
Dear Sir / Madam,
For 156 years, Western Union has been connecting people. At Western Union, there’s so much more than money you’re sending. Every sender and receiver is important to us. To celebrate our 157th Anniversary United Kingdom, we’re rewarding our customers with prizes of USD60, 000.00
Because you sent money on-line, from an agent location or received money through Western Union, you’ve been selected.
However, you are required to forward the following information for immediate payment of your USD60, 000.00
1.) Bank Name;
2.) Beneficiary:
3.) Account Number:
4.) Bank Address:
5.) Swift Code or Routing Number:
6) Country of Residence:
6.) Your Mobile Telephone Number:
You will be contacted by a Western Union in the next 24 hours as soon as you forward your required information and you will receive the USD60, 000.00 prizes immediately from us.
(CONTACT PROMOTION MANAGER)
Name: Mr. Hillary Newton
E-mail: agent2010@consultant.com
TEL+44-703-174-66-48
Fax +44-84-47-74-73-70
Save time, send money, earn rewards! Western Union is a service people trust.
ANNIVERSARY DAY
Thank you for using Western Union!
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We endeavor to maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to guard your Information. We also endeavor to restrict Information access to our employees, agents and representatives that need to know it. Western Union will never disclose your personal or billing information to a third party