Bank Error Gives Woman $1.13 billion 23
Cornelia Johansson got a pleasant surprise when she went online to pay some bills. She found an extra $1.13 billion in her bank account. "The balance was more than 10 billion kronor. It said the amount had been deposited as a correction for a credit card purchase," Ms Johansson's boyfriend Daniel Hoeglund said. A press spokeswoman for the bank, explained the mystery money as "a technical mistake made by a company."
Well... (Score:1)
This explains why the economy is down the crapper...
Mistake (Score:1)
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She should had moved the money to switzerland or something such and left the country. Totally worth it for 10 billion SEK.
Withdraw it all. (Score:2)
Quick. Withdraw it all before they notice.
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in any case, a couple of days interest on that amount would still be ok with me, and they cannot deny that the money was on the account anyway... can they ?
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I am way more willing to accept that you're an idiot and didn't notice that £50 got withdrawn from your account instead of the £40 and just gave your bank a free £10 than I am willing to accept that the ATM made an error. Those things are audited to hell, they do not ever make mistakes, they have no bugs.
Sorry, that's BS. I've personally experienced getting an extra $20 bill at an ATM. Twice. And I did double-check my printed receipt against the amount issued. As I recall, a couple of
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Have no bugs? Dude, half of them run windows. I've seen them bluescreened and I've seen them with explorer up. For that matter, even if they were perfect they have moving parts. Pieces of paper can stick together, rollers wear out, paper jams. It should be rare for someone to get overpaid, but it will happen a statistically significant fraction of the time.
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Only if they catch you, and for 10 billion I'd say go for it :)
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If they give it to you, even on accident, isn't it theft for them to take it back?
It *was* a reimbursement (lost in translation) (Score:1)
It was a reimbursement coming from a company (a chain of stores) *that she had used her credit card with*. Only the company goofed :-) In Swedish (with her photo):
http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=857&a=478755&ref=puff [www.gp.se]
http://www.gt.se/nyheter/1.1478858/cornelia-fick-10-miljarder-pa-kontot [www.gt.se]
The bank says that she did not have to tell the bank about the error, but that (obviously) it would have been illegal for her to try to use it.
The money was there for 24 hours, but the bank is not giving her t
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Taking the average current account rate in the UK of 0.51% (11 Feb 2009, TheTelegraph [telegraph.co.uk])
(1,130,000,000 * 0.51) / 365 = $1,578,904.11
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To begin with 1 days interest of x % isn't x/365.
But more importantly 0.51% isn't 0.51.
Well done.
They're really lucky, I guess (Score:2)
Every time I've had a bank error in my favor, I only collected $100.
This is just stimulus money (Score:2, Funny)
What this fails to mention is that this woman is single-handily responsible for the economic downturn and so the USA has given her a portion of the stimulus to help spark the global economy. Cornelia Johansson's credit card purchases amount to 83% of the Sweedish economy so to strengthen US-Sweedish relations President Obama included Johansson's refund as a part of the recent stimulus bill.
$ != Kronor (Score:1)
Help the guy with the gas bill (Score:1)
This woman should help the guy with the huge gas bill.