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Re: Western Union Withdrawals in Malaysia

malaysian — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 04:02:20 -0000

WU toll free line say only need name,MTCN & sender name but when you are at the counter, WU-Pride Express Kajang - requested for full address,relationship of the sender and so on,including asking the receiver's employer details,don't understand why there is double standard????

Re: Western Union Withdrawals in Malaysia

Anne Alexis — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:18:38 -0000

im a philipina.i have money from canada,my husband give to me the complet name and address and the mtcn no.but i go towestern union the counter said to me the no.not much found.....the counter said to me ask the sender if conferm the no is correct but my husband told all no.is correct.....almost 5 days already i didnt get my money.....

Re: Western Union Withdrawals in Malaysia

Farid Ahmad — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:53:56 -0000

hello, I'm still new here, for WU. I've received an email from someone that asked me to go to the nearest WU center to claim the money he was transferred to me...my question is, is it true? I mean how to know either it's true or not? If YES, what to do next? Thanks (.=

Re: Western Union Withdrawals in Malaysia

yowchuan — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:05:27 -0000

Nope, I don't think so. So far, my experience is that the Senders are the ones that need to pay for the transaction fees.

Re: Western Union Withdrawals in Malaysia

Linda — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:47:53 -0000

Do we the receiver party have to pay transfer charges to enable us to receive the payment sent?

Re: Western Union Withdrawals in Malaysia

Francomigz — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:35:49 -0000

This is really true, banks should post a sign outside that wester union is OFFLINE, i queued like for almost an hour only to be told the service is offline.

Re: Western Union Withdrawals in Malaysia

yowchuan — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:56:05 -0000

Yeah, the least they could do is to put a notice over the WU counter saying 'Western Union is Offline'.

I had an experience after waiting in line for half an hour, only to be told it was offline...

Re: Western Union Withdrawals in Malaysia

Choon Aun Toh — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:51:12 -0000

I find that banks that handle Western Union in Malaysia are often offline. One often have to go back a couple of times over many days to be able to find one that in online.

I wonder if any of you good folks also have that problem?

Re: Western Union Withdrawals in Malaysia

yowchuan — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:58:48 -0000

It can be quite confusing when it comes to middle names, first names and last names. Some tellers would make a big fuss out of it, but my experience is it usually got sorted out after some senior staff intervenes.

One classic example I had with Public Bank was the Receiving Money form had a field for the Sender's 'First Name' and 'Last Name'. And in my case, the sender was Google Inc, and there's no way I could have known if Google Inc was the last name or the first name, since it's a name of a corporation. And I'd to wait for about 15 minutes before it could be resolved, because I've filled up Google Inc in the 'First Name' field, and the teller insist that Google Inc is the last name.

I could have just save the trouble by filling up a new form though.

Re: Western Union Withdrawals in Malaysia

Adam — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:39:29 -0000

They guy at CIMB Curve, was rude, cold and unhelpful. I was completely broke and he was not letting me collect my money because the sender did not put my middle name. he told me to tell the sender to go back and fix it, which was not possible,for another few days. Yet, I did have the proper address and MTCN Control Number! As it turned out the form the sender used in Korea, doesn't have a field for the middle name! This completely ruined my day, and I missed an appointment. I ended up jumping on teh free shuttle to Kelana Jaya LRT, then use the last credit on my touch'n'go card, and i use the Western Union at BSN bank at Ampang Park. If she was going to ask for middle name, i was going to have a nervous breakdown, but it all went smoothly.

Re: Western Union Withdrawals in Malaysia

yowchuan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:12:50 -0000

Paul bro, I'm using a very primitive yardstick...by measuring the time queued and time I need to wait after submitting the completed form to the teller.

My experience with CIMB branches has been most pleasant. The other banks, sometimes they looked as if I filled up the wrong form and had to scurry from one end to another trying to verify my details...

Re: Western Union Withdrawals in Malaysia

Paul Tan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:27:17 -0000

How do you measure the "effectiveness" which you are ranking them by?

Re: Western Union Withdrawals in Malaysia

blackidea — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:25:28 -0000

if in indonesian, we can do it through the post office and bank a few. but the most easily through the post office