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Walmart cashiers by and large are not sophisticated either. I mean that sounds harsh but these are not people walking in with a lot of financial savvy. Without training and reminders I would not think they would be any more likely to identify these scams than the victims are.

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Maybe they shouldn't be in that role then.

Maybe Walmart should be expected to employ people in these roles who are paid and trained well enough to be able to pass a test like "can you spot the most obvious scam that has ever scammed, at least once in a while?"

Perhaps, as you suggest, Wal-Mart should hire high-paid, well-trained executives from PayPal, Zelle, CashApp, Venmo or other services. God knows there's never been fraudulent transactions or scams on those platforms.

You obviously have a beef with Wal-Mart, writing essentially the same comment 4 times and seemingly ignoring the fact that virtually every supermarket and check-casher in the country has a similar employee running the Western Union desk.

Well if those companies have fraud then WalMart just shouldn't even try. Your logic is impeccable.

Impeccable? You've made up your mind based solely on the accusation (which 2 of the 5 Commissioners voted against). I prefer waiting until the defense gets its say.

Yes, you're right. There's no middle ground between "3 hour morning training on using the Western Union console" and "fintech antifraud executive", none at all.

The point is that both groups are unable to prevent fraud.

you have presented no evidence to support this claim. There coupd be 100x more fraud with wallmart payments.

just because zero fraud cant be achieved dows not mean we should have no anti fraud measures

> ignoring the fact that virtually every supermarket and check-casher in the country has a similar employee running the Western Union desk.

My stance applies to them as well, if they have similarly weak policies on fraud.

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