[happygobrokey]

thanks guys. yes i ought to have known, but i wasn't expecting any interrogation, precisely because it is none of their business. and as it works out, i did hurry out to another place and it got through just fine, no questions asked. my guess is that money mart would pay in cash, where the next place i tried (the cash store it was called) cashed cheques by giving out a card with preloaded funds, or in the case of a wire they can also provide a cheque to deposit to one's bank. i took this option and with any luck the funds will be cleared in my bank after the usual span.

if indeed they do something like flagging my transaction not to pay me, what would happen to this money since it's already been wired (and according to the casino who sent it me) and once the funds are taken from the sender they are not recoverable? any time someone mentions it's from gambling then it becomes dead money that wetern union can just pocket? surely that's criminal.

and also in my case i never wired any money to a casino, so pina what you say about funding gambling is not entirely true. i know what you mean though, it still is moving money on behalf of and implicitly in support of gambling, but i never paid any attention to wire options since the only thing i know is they come with hefty fees of 15-40 dollars most times. i did not intend to get these funds via wire, it just happened that way, and hopefully all is well now... so it's all good, knock on wood