Where are we with scammers using Western Union & Moneygram to get money? Both companies have been sued the FTC over allowing their services to be used by scammers to get money from victims, often with agents who were either scammers themselves or were complicit. It appears that these enforc...
Many of these scammers will tell you to buy gift cards and send them the PIN numbers or will ask you to send money through a money transfer service, like MoneyGram, or Western Union. After you have given the gift card PINs or wired the money, it’s almost impossible to get the funds...
You’ve seen the emails: They claim to have been sent by a financial institution in a faraway land, or from a corrupt bureaucrat in an equally corrupt government. Whatever the ruse, the senders always claim to need your help in spiriting away millions of dollars. These schemes, known as“...
Some services will claim 'no commission'. This can be misleading as they will often have hidden a markup by offering you a worse exchange rate. 2. Know the current exchange rateBe familiar with the current exchange rate to help identify a bad deal from exchange services. 3. Avoid ...