re: Is Western Union/MoneyGram for trashy people?

It helps facilitate drug dealers who sell to working professionals. Instead of meeting every other day, a lot of dealers will unload weight in one transaction to last a week or two, usually the duration between the user's paychecks. Payment is then done in one Western Union transaction, and is usually picked up by someone other than the dealer and usually someone of the opposite sex, so you could theoretically claim it's a mistress if someone starting looking.