Question by G.: how much fee will charge western union to send a money from USA to Russia?
I would like to send a money from western union fro Usa to Russia Sochi
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Answer by Ed Fox
Check the WU website or your nearest WU outlet. I use MoneyGram myself. WU ask too many questions on their form
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Buffy Staffordshire says
Since you are asking how much the fee is, you have never used Western Union before, have your?
Is your online girlfriend in need of funds to fly to meet you? Is her mother sick? She lost her job? The travel agent is demanding full payment up front and is holding her passport hostage? She needs cash to pay for the visa and other travel documents?
Just to let you know, Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.
If you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.
There are lots of sites where you can look up email addresses, names and stories to determine if you have been emailing a scammer.
Kittysue says
It all depends how much money you are sending, Their fees depend on which country you are sending to and the amount. Just call the 800 number on the WU website and they'll telll you