B*****ds. I've now tried 4 times over 2 days using 2 different cards to use their money in minutes service and they've all been declined!! I used them about 3 weeks ago and it was fine. I've now verified the account and all of a sudden nothing is working. Both accounts have money in them and western union say on the phone that its a business decision!! Fat lot of good telling me that!! Useless:f:
Weird! I always use them - I have never had that problem but I have had a different one - my bank (Barclays) is extremely likely to stop my cards for "suspected fraud" if I use them with Western Union. This happens repeatedly and Barclays never tell you they have stopped a card, they just wait for you to call them. Incidentally never, ever, tell Western Union that you have changed your address - their system really doesn't like it - I owe that information to a Western Union call centre lady!
But if you have changed your address how is your card going to get validated if they send the old address with the transaction? I hate Western Union, thieving robbing bar stewards!!!!
The bloke I spoke to actually said to go into one of their branches. I didn't explain I'm offshore Mozambique as I was tired and emotional by this point! But if I wanted to go into one of their pigging branches I would've done so already. The fact that I'm doing via the internet should give them a clue!!
Had this same issue with them numerous times, they are pretty strict with their checks because they are used by a lot of fraudsters. And they're robbing gits!!!
From a coding viewpoint I must admit that I am not entirely certain of all the security checks in the payment gateway pipeline but I was under the impression that Verified by Visa and the likes were an additional secondary federated authentication designed to strengthen the overall pipeline but not a complete replacement for the primary authentication measures of name address and card details, maybe I'm wrong or maybe they are just operating the security quite loosely.
