[Magdalen] Wiring cash when it's a real emergency

[Jay Weigel]

Oops---doing email on iPad can be tricky! Scott, if he has a Walmart nearby
where he is, there's an easier way than Western Union these days. You can
send up to $400 using your debit card by doing a Walmart-to-Walmart
transfer from their money services desk. Family and I have done this quite
successfully from time to time. Of course this presumes you have a Walmart
close to you, which you may not in Chicago. But it's handy to know about.
You go to their money services desk, full out a form, and there's a charge
of $9. The other party picks it up at a WalMart near them. Western Union
pickups are not nearly as ubiquitous as Walmarts these days.


On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 11:22 PM Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 11:08 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
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> We've all heard of those scams where you get a fake email from a
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> friend's email address claiming they've lost their wallet in Spain and
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> need money wired.
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> My dear partner has been on retreat at Saint Meinrad Archabbey in
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> Indiana and somehow lost his wallet. Needs cash to drive home
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> tomorrow.
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> Looks like I'll need to go to a Bank of America and withdraw cash so I
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> can send it from a Western Union agent so he can pick it up without a
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> government-issued ID (it's in the wallet).
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> Just posting this in case someone has done this before and knows of
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> any pitfalls or other ways to do this.
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> And all this is before stopping credit cards he had in his wallet.
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> I'm going to need a retreat of my own after this. Sheesh.
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> Scott R. Knitter
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> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
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