Potential pitfall of Western Union.

[JBC77]

I was watching a documentary online last night about homeland spying (inside the U.S). I was a little shocked to find out all outgoing ** money transfers are being monitored by the Feds.....and ** is just handing over the info. If you get bored, check it out. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/view/

[chano]

** will never go down. They could implement some sort of plan to monitor it. But they are too big and provide much other services than just the online gaming Industry.

[JBC77]

No....I don't think they are going down or out of business. I just found the circumstances of the Feds getting the info strange. They went to **, asked them to provide all info for money leaving the U.S and ** complied with no argument. The docu. said they have been doing it for years.
I guess it's a matter of personal privacy.

[ForgetWallStreet]

No....I don't think they are going down or out of business. I just found the circumstances of the Feds getting the info strange. They went to **, asked them to provide all info for money leaving the U.S and ** complied with no argument. The docu. said they have been doing it for years.
I guess it's a matter of personal privacy.

Has nothing to do with gambling though. If they ever begin to arrest/investigate individual players we are going to have bigger fish to fry than gambling. Never goingto happen IMO.

[Bill Dozer]

** will shut down individual locations which is why the stores will only accept certain levels of volume.

[Ganchrow]

That's just further reason to keep your ** transfer amounts small.

Transfer under $1,000 I think and they don;t ask for ID? That seems like it might be a good ceiling to self-impose.

[mavs1978]

i have been banned from ** for years

[RageWizard]

Doesn't Western Union only allow transfers to actual people?

A couple of years ago I funded an account through Western Union and I had to give some guys name that the sportsbook provided me so that the transfer would go through.

With the above in mind how the Feds could not crack down on this method of transfer unless they totally make it illegal to transfer money outside the U.S.

[jjgold]

Good points Rage, that would be only way to stop it.

[WileOut]

Doesn't Western Union only allow transfers to actual people?

No.

To respond to the OP, why would ** not hand over the info? They have nothing to hide.


Money transactions are not personal privacy. They are public record.