The universal net system of Western Union ensures its clients with a possibility to send/receive money within a few minutes at more than 245 000 Western Union services in 200 countries throughout the world (including Russia and the CIS).

Western Union is company started in the USA that has more than 150 years of experience in the world’s financial market. Millions of clients all around the world use Western Union services.

Advantages of Western Union services

Quick!
Just within a few minutes the transferred money is available to the receiver.

Convenient!
To send/receive the money you do not need to open an account with a bank. You just have to fill out a money sending/receiving form at any of Krājbanka’s Client Service Centers.

Safe!
Western Union safety system and the high level of service allow you to save time while sending/ receiving money.

How to send the money?

You can send the money at any Krājbanka's Client Service Centers after filling out the money sending form. In the form you have to mention amount and currency of the transfer, the recipient’s county, the recipient’s name and surname, the sender’s name and surname.

The form has to be submitted to Krājbanka employee by presenting him/her a valid person’s ID, and then you have to pay in the transfer amount.

The Krājbanka employee will issue the money transfer control number, which shall be notified to the receiver of the money in the case if in the respective country the money transfer control number is compulsory requirement to receive the transfer.

How to receive the transfer?

You can receive the Western Union transfer at any Krājbanka's Client Service Centers after filling out the money reception form. In the form you have to mention the name and surname of the receiver, amount of the expected transfer, name and surname of the money sender and the money transfer control number (the sender will tell you the money transfer control number).

After submitting the completed form and presenting an ID to a bank offcial, you will be able to receive the transferred sum in a few minutes, free of commission.

What does Quick Pay mean?

Quick Pay or payment services ensures a possibility to make transfers to Western Union’s partner companies in more than 100 countries throughout the world within a few minutes.

Using Quick Pay service, your transfer will be registered at the Western Union’s partner company in just a moment.

To send the money you do not need to open an account with the bank. You just have to fill out the Quick Pay form at any of Krājbanka’s Client Service Centers and to pay the transfer amount.

Tips how to avoid becoming a victim of fraud

• Be cautious if an unknown person asks you to send money using Western Union. Think over if the money should really be transferred immediately?
• Send money only to well-known persons or to those whose identity you can check.
• Be cautious if a stranger asks you to transfer money and send him/her detailed information about the transfer (the control number, your passport data etc.).
• Do not send the money to a stranger using a fictitious recipient’s name.
• Not in all countries Western Union requires a receiver to present the money transfer control number to pick up the transfer.
• A test question is provided only for emergencies or for situations when it is a must for the transfer reception in particular countries.
• Western Union does not guarantee the receiption of or the quality of any goods or services purchased.
• It is better to choose another payment type for purchasing over the Internet, for instance, the transfer to a vender’s account in a bank. In this case, if anything goes wrong, there is a possibility to find the owner.

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