western union class action?

Is there any class action against western union? it seems to me they knowingly let fraud continue wth various internet scams. I see they were warned by several state attorney general offices but when I was scammed last month western union did not have any of the supposed protections in place. And they would not even give me information on my own transfer--is it a secret who i sent my own money to??

Irked!

I saw this below: ??? looks like they already know something is wrong.

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Forced by several state attorneys general, Western Union's has finally decided to institute sweeping changes to its business practices to help prevent telemarketing scams against consumers on a broad scale.

The problem of fraud-induced transfers was documented by a survey of 2002 transactions conducted in 2003 by seven states. According to the survey, more than 29 percent of Western Union transfers in excess of $300 from the U.S. to Canada were fraud-induced, representing 58 percent of the total dollars transferred and an average of over $1500 per transfer. Total American consumer losses to Canada alone in 2002 were estimated at $113 million.

In response to these findings, a group of state Attorneys General began negotiating with Western Union. The negotiations have produced an agreement, which will provide adequate warnings to consumers who transfer money by wire, educate high-risk consumers, and change
company practices.

Western Union is acting to reduce the frequency of fraud-induced money transfers that are encouraged by scam operators. Western Union operates 40,000 wire transfer points in the U.S. and more than 195,000 around the world which, up to now, have been fertile ground for fraud artists to perpetrate crime against innocent consumers.

The company will now post conspicuous warnings on its forms for sending money, on its Web site and within its toll-free telephone messages. If fraud appears likely during a transaction, the company will reimburse the principal amounts of money transfers if consumers request that Western Union reverse the transfer before the money has been picked up at its destination point. In addition, the company will establish a system to interrupt and hold transfers suspected of being fraud-induced, then notify the consumer about the risks of completing the transfer.

Western Union has also agreed to spend more than $8 million on an education program giving consumers valuable information about avoiding wire transfers of cash that may involve fraud.

i put my car up for sale about 3 or 4 weeks ago on myspace. i got a buyer but he had me wait for 2 weeks before i got the money. he sent me 3 money orders for $750 each. the car was $1000 and he wanted me to send $1250 to his shipping company in Nigeria. i sent the money to the shipping company through western union and now he says he is no longer interested in purchasing my car. he wants me to send the rest of the money to the same shipping company to pick up another car that his wife just bought for his son. what should i do? i feel that because i held this car for him and turned down other offers that i should be able to keep the money. he csn pick up the car anytime he wants. i just don't want to be sued by him if he says that i took the money and never gave him the car

Do not send more--this is a common scam. You may file an FBI report for fraud but they will not likely do much unfortunately for one smaller event.

Western Union is acting to reduce the frequency of fraud-induced money transfers that are encouraged by scam operators. Western Union operates 40,000 wire transfer points in the U.S. and more than 195,000 around the world which, up to now, have been fertile ground for fraud artists to perpetrate crime against innocent consumers.

HMMMM...

I sent 3500 dollars to Ireland, got scammed and Western Union tells me thay will not give me the ID copy that was used by the person that picked up the money I SENT--they say it is confidential who I sent the money to--what ?? my money that I sent????

I hope they get a nice fat class action for all their bullsh---tt

I recently sent money via Western union to a person in Romania to purchase 3 laptops. Because of so-called complications with delivering the laptops, I have received no product. Now I have not heard from the seller in quite a while, and he had already promised my money to be returned quite a while ago. I need to ask what there is i can do.

Check fraud here:

Bridgehampton National Bank
425 County Rd. 39
Southhampton, NY 11968

but according to them someone created the checks using their address and using one their account numbers that has not been used for awhile.

And yes, I was instructed to send "tax", "insurance", and "customs" fees by Western Union and some by Moneygram. They gave me a name of a different person to send it to for each specified amount of "fee".

They skillfully play a psychological game on hope and such, but within 2 days I began to suspect and called the bank, checked further on their information;

"Winners Trust Finance Inc.
117 UPHill Ave.
St. John, NF, Canada A5C 3X6"

On 10-16-06, I found this company Puutyeshoes on TradeKey.com whom is a Silver Key Member. I started asking him for quotes on xbox360's and playstation. He responded to me right away with my total and Western union address so I can submitt my payment. I then made payment to Western union on 10-19-06 for $2405.00. Western Union gave me MTCN # . The following day, I had another order for him for 10 xbox360's. He gave me the total of $1850.00 with MTCN # . It took him 3 days to provide me tracking #'s for all these packages. This is when I really starting worrying. When finally recieving the EMS #'s, I started tracking them carefully. Well, they never arrived and I was given 3 bogus fake tracking #'s. I then called the Postal Office where the box was delivered and they told me it was a small shoes box. I?m assuming it?s money that is being transferred from China. I then contacted him and heard no response to this day. I currently deal with another distributor from China, she told me that all the electronics that this company sells are not GENIUNE as they promise they are. They sell bootleg fake electronics. Please investigate this as well.
This is the Western union info given to me:
First Name: Guoren
Last Name: Huang
Address: Nanshan St. Shenzhen City

You people are so stupid !! You are dumb enough to fall for this stuff, you deserve to lose your money. GREED.