BACON BITES!

[Chris]

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[shownomercy]

Carpeting a fbod takes entirely too much patience for me.

[popo8]

For those not following the raffle car thread or my FB...

NEVER EVER EVER EVER USE WESTERN UNION..

Enjoy:

Let me tell you about my (our) day today. I gave a decent amount of money to Western Union today around noon ish... The plan was for the money to go to a friend of mine in TN, to utilize to purchase a vehicle that would become a raffle car for LTXtech.com. With the money dropped off, I sent him the number and instructions to get the money. I even paid an extra 50 on top of the 140 dollar charge to use their "MONEY IN MINUTES" program, rather than waiting 3 days...or any of the other options. Several hours later, my friend calls me and says I need to call W.U. service and confirm that he can take the money because it was a large amount...EVEN THOUGH I LISTED HIM AS THE RECIPIENT. I call as requested and explain the situation to the first person that can not speak English. She tells me that she needs to transfer me to another dept...a SECURITIES DEPT.... I get to speak with someone with worse English.. she tells me that because I am sending SO MUCH MONEY I need to confirm things... so I answer all her questions.. MY NAME.. the recipients NAME... MY ADDRESS, what state he lives in... then it gets weird ... SHE ASKS ME: -how long have you known him? I answer 1 year. -have you ever met him in person? I answer NO. -how do you communicate with him? I answer internet and phone. -What is the money for? I answer, He needs it to help me out? IT got to the point that I started telling her it was none of her business.... I even told her I am a Police Officer, and when she asked me how I knew I was not being scammed for the money if I never met him.. I told her because he is my friend, not some stranger.... She advised me that she needed to put me on hold and she would get back to me. She returns and tells me "MR HANNA, WESTERN UNION HAS DECIDED TO REFUND YOUR MONEY." I FKN LOSE IT... I tell her that is not an option, I am trying to make something happen and she is ruining it... I do not need the money refunded, I need the money to get to my recipient so that he can help me do something. She tells me that it has already been done and gives me the transaction number to go collect my money..... She ends the conversation by asking me a questions... she say, "DO YOU HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS?" I responded: "YES, DO YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO GO FK YOUR SELF?" So we drive back from Allentown where we were to handle something for my work, and fly back to where I paid the money so that I could feel secure that I had my cash back in hand. I get to the store where I did the transaction... of course the nice people from earlier are gone and some lying POS is there.... She tells me.. "I dont have that kind of money here." I told her I JUST HANDED IT OVER IN CASH EARLIER... she looks at me like Im an idiot and tells me to go to another shopping center where there is a pawn shop. I have lived in this area for 37 years, and I know there is no pawn shop there.. so I call her on it...she makes some calls and tells me to go to another pawn shop where they send all their customers that need large amts of money RECIEVED from W.U.... So we go... they are closed. Ang starts researching.. we hit 11 other places... All closed.. or dont deal with W.U. or advise they dont have enough money, etc... The best I got was a supersized bodega that pays all their employes in cash, only they were short cause today was pay day. Finally.. GIANT supermarket says, they dont have the cash, but they would issue me a W.U. check. I asked if I could use that check to try to have someone else recieve the money.... believe it or not.. she tells me...that they can not honor the western union check (THAT THEY ISSUE) I would need to take it to my bank and cash it then return with the cash... NEEDLESS TO SAY...WESTERN UNION IS NOTHING MORE THAN A CON.. I UNDERSTAND THEY ARE TRYING TO THWART FRAUD, but if that was the case, why am I taking one-two complaints a day at work, by people who paid money, to get a loan from companies that dont exist... THAT SHIT DOES NOT THROW UP A RED FLAG.. but a cop sending a friend money to buy him a car does... WTF!!!!

[383z]

I work for Kroger Co. a very large grocery company. I understand your pain, because I used to be a manager in the stores and of course customers would get made at me. But the the real reason for all the BS to prevent laundering money due to all the 9/11 stuff that happened. The federal laws are very strict. If an employee even "thinks" something is suspicious they HAVE to report you and if it's over a certain amount of money too. There are a lot of rules that go on that need to be reported and customers don't even know it, its the law. Sorry for all the PITA events that happened though.

[Chris]

Holy moly



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[popo8]

I work for Kroger Co. a very large grocery company. I understand your pain, because I used to be a manager in the stores and of course customers would get made at me. But the the real reason for all the BS to prevent laundering money due to all the 9/11 stuff that happened. The federal laws are very strict. If an employee even "thinks" something is suspicious they HAVE to report you and if it's over a certain amount of money too. There are a lot of rules that go on that need to be reported and customers don't even know it, its the law. Sorry for all the PITA events that happened though.

But the lady helped me do it and give the money. Asked me my career...i showed them... I followed her instructions. What red flags did i throw?

I didnt lie about anything...gave all the details... Answered all tge verification questions

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[Chris]

Saying you never met him did you in

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[383z]

But the lady helped me do it and give the money. Asked me my career...i showed them... I followed her instructions. What red flags did i throw?

I didnt lie about anything...gave all the details... Answered all tge verification questions

MEMBER @ LTXtech.com

Was it probably him? You both have to have valid I.D.s and all. Saying things like you only talk to him over the internet and phone etc. Also, Western Union can pick it up. I agree that they need to get better English speaking customer service.

[Mrs Popo8]

That is also something I think that should be publicized, that if it is over a certain amount of money you will be required to answer questions upon the recipient picking up the money, not let you send the money and then make it that ridiculously hard to get it back! It was his money and the bitch could not just give it back to him, with I.D. I think that is absolutely ridiculous! I hate western union! The only thing I can do is write them a letter which I will do as soon as this shit gets straightened out and post bad publicity about their horrible customer service EVERYWHERE I CAN! Sometimes that stuff gets people to listen! I am pissed about the waste of my Saturday driving around like an idiot and talking to someone that does not seem to even understand what is going on.....they were giving me numbers to western union agents that were not even at the businesses anymore! That was right from their customer service? How can that possible help anyone, you do not go to a place like western union unless you need IMMEDIATE transactions to happen, and that was more time consuming than if we would have just waited until Monday and had that shit transferred right from bank to bank!

[383z]

For those not following the raffle car thread or my FB...

NEVER EVER EVER EVER USE WESTERN UNION..

Enjoy:

then it gets weird ... SHE ASKS ME: -how long have you known him? I answer 1 year. -have you ever met him in person? I answer NO. -how do you communicate with him? I answer internet and phone. -What is the money for? I answer, He needs it to help me out? IT got to the point that I started telling her it was none of her business.... I even told her I am a Police Officer, and when she asked me how I knew I was not being scammed for the money if I never met him.. I told her because he is my friend, not some stranger.... She advised me that she needed to put me on hold and she would get back to me. She returns and tells me "MR HANNA, WESTERN UNION HAS DECIDED TO REFUND YOUR MONEY." I FKN LOSE IT... I tell her that is not an option, I am trying to make something happen and she is ruining it... I do not need the money refunded, I need the money to get to my recipient so that he can help me do something.

Ya, this stuff would sound fishy if you didn't know what was really going on. lol that is funny. try and look at it in her eyes. Sorry again.