Need a Western Union Expert please!
If you know your stuff on WU, could you help me out here? A 'source' of mine (it's actually for nothing gear related, for real!) has a system designed to keep me "safe" while doing business through WU. His proposal is to set up the wire transfer to his area and such, but have the receiver's name be my brother or best friend for example, this way he can not pick up the funds but can use the MCTN# to check that the funds actually exist (according to him). Once I receive the product, I head to WU and change the pick up name to his if it means expectations. I like this because it puts the trust on his end, as i could get the product and simply cancel (which I won't). My question is, does this work as he lays out? I assume that just anyone with the MCTN can't go pick the thing up, and without proper ID stating he's my brother or whoever he can't touch it. But, I'm shocked that just anyone can check if funds exist having just the #. Anyway, could really use some feedback here as to whether or not this'll work.