Moneygram: fraud!

[Noons]

Never ever send any money or accept any payment through Moneygram: this company is a FRAUD!

[Swingman]

Thanks for the heads-up.

Despite all the BS on the interwebs about the service, I've been using PayPal to transfer funds to my daughter and SIL in the UK, and thus far it has been the cheapest, fastest way to do an International money transfer I've found.

I fund the transfer with a PP "verified" AmEx cc card, used for that and nothing else, to the kids PP accounts, and they generally have the money, readily available for transfer to their bank accounts, in minutes.

I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop ...

[Dave]

I used a bank to bank transfer recently that seemed pretty easy. Anything like that available that you can use? Hell, if you can't use your bank for something like this, who can you trust?

[Han]

Dave wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Bank to bank transfers are very expensive if they go from the US to Holland, or vice versa. DAMHIKT.

[Swingman]

That is precisely why I don't use either of my banks. Even USAA has outrageous xfer fees, plus the conversion rates are in the banks favor and they nickle and dime you at every step.

I may yet get surprised, but funding the transfer with a credit card from one paypal account here in the US to another in the UK has been the cat's meow so far.

[Swingman]

Forgot to add that I can check a box saying sender pays all fees and they get exactly the amount of money I intended to send them in GBP's.

[k-nuttle]

Can she use a credit card and then you pay the credit card bill?

[Leon]

Yeah! mMany years ago on SNL some one would be at the door announcing "moneygram". Then the resident would open the door and have his head bit off by a "land shark". ;~)

[willshak]

1974.