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FTC Sends More than $9.8 Million to Consumers Harmed by Walmart’s Failure to Stop Scammers that Used its Wire Transfer Services to Take Millions from Customers

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The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments totaling more than $9.8 million to consumers harmed by Walmart’s alleged failure to stop scammers that took hundreds of millions of dollars from U.S. consumers using the company’s wire transfer services.View Press Release

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Source: Federal Trade Commission Press Releases ↗

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What happenedavailable · FTC Sends More than $9.8 Million to Consumers Harmed by Walmart’s Failure to Stop Scammers that Used its Wire Transfer Services to Take Millions from CustomersThe Federal Trade Commission is sending payments totaling more than $9.8 million to consumers harmed by Walmart’s alleged failure to stop scammers that took hundreds of millions of dollars from U.S. consumers using the company’s wire transfer services.View Press Release
Whensource_backed · reported 2026-10-15Occurred 2026-10-15. Source-record timestamps; no timezone or event time is inferred.
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Source: Open original press release · as of 2026-10-15T12:00:00Z

Source: Federal Trade Commission Press Releases · as of 2026-10-15T12:00:00Z