I do not know about internationally, but truckers use a dozen or so wire
services that in my experience have been absolutely reliable. You can
check with a local truck stop about them. Also I would bet that Bank of
America can transfer funds for her to just about anywhere.
I find it interesting that now there are dozens of ways to transfer
money around Western Union has become more and more unreliable. Frankly
I would rather send cash (Global Express Mail One Rate envelope, cost
$5) than use them.
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Juan Buhler wrote:
This is OT but might be of some interest to those of you making
transactions across borders.
My gf is buying an apartment in Warsaw. She has family there acting as
liason and is closing on a deal right now. She needed to wire some
money for a (not an extreme amount, $1700), and used the Western Union
branch on Mission and 19th in San Francisco. The money never got
there. When she went back to the branch office to investigate, she was
told that "she had come back, changed her mind, and the money was
given back to her."
It seems like someone forged her signature. She shamed the cashier
into giving her a copy of that receipt, which has the forged signature
(she says it's similar, but she can tell.)
Anyway--this is obviously a local case, but you might want to stay
away from that WU branch for now if you are in San Francisco. I told
her to document all her emails and calls to her family in Poland, to
make it clear that there was no reason for her to change her mind, and
to involve the police as soon as possible.
Has anyone gone through a similar ordeal with Western Union? How good
are they at dealing with internal fraud?
Any advice welcome...
j
ps: is there any other reliable way to wire money to Central Europe from the US?
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