Walmart Inc. has agreed to pay $10 million to resolve a U.S. Federal Trade Commission civil lawsuit that accused the retailer of ignoring warning signs that fraudsters were using its in-store money-transfer services to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from consumers. The proposed settlement, filed 20 June in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, still requires approval from Judge Manish Shah. Walmart neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing. Under the stipulated order, Walmart must block transfers it knows or suspects are fraudulent, stop assisting telemarketers or sellers believed to be using its services for scams, and improve employee training and customer warnings. The FTC’s three commissioners voted unanimously to accept the deal, which also bars the company from processing cash-to-cash transfers for suspect transactions. The regulator’s June 2022 complaint alleged that between 2013 and 2018 Walmart, acting as an agent for MoneyGram, Western Union and Ria, failed to implement adequate anti-fraud safeguards, letting scams that included IRS impersonations and bogus lottery winnings flourish. Portions of the case were dismissed in 2024, but core claims survived and Walmart’s appeal was pending. The settlement ends that litigation and is intended to prevent similar lapses in the future.