$586 MILLION penalty for Western Union from FTC

Holy cow

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/01/western-union-admits-anti-money-laundering-violations-settles

For those of you who don’t know, Western Union money xfers are used by a lot of craigslist scammers, email scammers, etc.

Edit - I meant to write on here - if you have been scammed like this through Western Union this money will go into a fund to help pay you back.