A woman found $1.7 billion dollars deposited in her bank account whilst doing some online banking.
The money was later transferred out - the bank citing "a technical error".
This just goes to show - you should never trust your bank or broker and should always go through your bank statement to check for errors.
Somehow I don't think the bank would be so kind if the error was in their favor.
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WOW! What would happen if she had immediately transferred that money out to another account or spent it somewhere it? Could the bank sue her? Is it wrong to spend money in your bank account? :P
yes it is... in singapore you can be charged and sent to jail for doing that. Not sure in Sweden...
yeah banks can take recovery action if it is resonable to expect the person did not know. It often takes place, or they can pledge the funds from other banks to recover the debt. not too many ways to get away with Highway robbery... why even now, no highways left, only tollways. There is little point...
Bankers though, depite Yauming's sarcasm are nice people. :D
Haha... yeah like the nice fellows who ran Lehman Brothers and the nice bankers who helped them sell their minibonds to pensioners. :)
I heard of one story in Singapore - where someone in the 1980s found a huge sum of money accidentally deposited into his account and he either kept it. He got sent to jail for that. I thought that was rather unfair. There's another story of someone finding a big banking error in his favor - he went to the branch - withdrew it all and skipped out of the country.
you trust them with your money so they must be nice, good, honest and trustworthy people. :D
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