Complete guide to Western Union

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Introduction​

Since lots of people doesnt know exactly what is Western union i decided to make that guide hoping everybody understands it
What is Western Union?
Western Union (Aka WU) is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. Its North American headquarters are in Englewood, Colorado, and its international marketing and commercial services headquarters are in Montvale, New Jersey. Until it discontinued the service, this company was the best known US company in the business of exchanging telegrams.

Western Union has a number of divisions, with products such as person-to-person money transfer, money orders, and commercial services. As of June 9, 2006, the company has 270,000 Western Union agent locations in over 200 countries and territories. Reported revenues top $3 billion annually.

Why use Western union?
Because its very efficent and fast service unlike the mail which takes like 3-5 days to send and on the other hand WU only takes like 1 minute to send money unless there's something wrong with the name in order to change it and to work it needs maximum 2 hours to activate
Another good thing about WU is that you dont need a CreditCard to send money unlike Paypal and E-gold but only you have to have an ID for yourself and to know the reciever's exact name
How To send Money
First thing ,you need to go to Western Union site,then click on Find agent location,and then select your country and put on your city name until you find the agent address the nearest to you
NOTE:WU agents doesnt have to be on special shops,they can be everywhere like Post office,Supermarket,Exchangers...
after you find the nearest agent,go there
then tell the agent your correct full name and the reciever's Correct full name[/B ]and give the agent the money and a small sending fee which varies from each country,then give him your ID so that he writes your ID number,OR in most places they give YOU a paper to fill out and its like this:

after you fill out the paper the agent will give you an MTCN number which will be explained on the next part
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How to recieve money​

in this part you need the sender to provide you the MTCN number,the MTCN number is a 10 digit numbers which is needed when you go to the agent and recieve the money,you Must give the agent that number and your ID so that the name is correct and is for the right person
after everything is ok this part the agent will give you the money
How to know if the MTCN number the sender provided you is correct
Go to Western union site and click The "Tracking" tab in the upfront,Here's a picture:


IF it was a wrong MTCN you should see this:

IF its right MTCN you should get this message:
your order is ready to pick up​

Western union Common scams​

Recently, many Sellers have pretended to sell expensive items (usually, jewelery, computers or sports tickets) which they DO NOT Actually have.These Sellers almost always are located in Europe (typically England or Italy, but they could be elsewhere, too!) and Almost always require the high bidder to pay by Western union and no other of payment methods are acceptable

NOTE: Western Union payments are virtual untraceable, which means that -- if a Seller is a fraud -- there is virtually no chance that a Buyer will be able to get his/her money back.​

Credits​

Monsieur Noob(aka Thug in fagex) for writing the guide
Western union,for taking the pictures from
Sythe.org,for viewing the guide
Wikipedia.org,for taking some information from
Ebay.com,also for some information​