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Third-Largest US Bank Adds $81,000,000,000,000 To Customer's Account Balance in Massive Payment Error

dailyhodl.com Third-Largest US Bank Adds $81,000,000,000,000 To Customer's Account Balance in Massive Payment Error - The Daily Hodl

The third-largest bank in the US accidentally credited trillions of dollars to a customer's balance in a massive payment error, according to a new report.

Bank error in your favor, collect several trillion dollars

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doge treasury dept intern: "whoops, that was supposed to go to the president's.. i mean, elon's, personal account. my bad."
- You mean President Elon’s
Money is so fake lmao
- this is how we end up with sov cits.
  
  Everything is fake. But if men with guns say it's real then treating it as such is a matter of survival.
  
  Aren't sovcits like the polar opposite view and believe that the "system" is so real and literal that they can recite magic contract language to get free money and have laws no longer apply to them?
- It sure buys real things.
you'd think anything over a few million would be flagged for manual review. such a basic systems check.
- It probably was and still accidentally approved. It happens. I see four eyes or maker checker processes fail all the time.
  
  No process is perfect, doesnt mean you dont put it in place in these context. The cost is trivially low given the volume and doesnt make you look like a moron.
- Sounds like a bunch of commie talk. Let the free market decide where the money goes
you can have that money back, just lemme have the interest earned over those few hours.
But hey that still counts as $162 trillion added to the gdp
- That's not how GDP is calculated, a better joke would be "... Added to M1"
  
  Yeah everyone knows what M1 is. Duh.
Regardless of how/when this gets reversed, this person should get a Wikipedia page and forever be referred to as the first (and hopefully only) trillionaire. It'll drive Musk crazy.
How can we know for sure that it is an error ?
Just a number in a database...

If the customer acted really fast he might have been able to yoink some of that out of there in the form of a wire to another bank.
- Wouldn't work, banks would almost certainly flag and hold the transaction for possible fraud, and banks can also just reverse transactions like that (usually for a fee paid to the original receiving bank). Even serial numbers of bills can be marked as fraudulent so even withdrawing from an ATM wouldn't work.
  
  Banks aren't on a blockchain, they have protocols and agreements to be able to fix mistakes like this.
  
  Best shot is immediately contacting the bank, highlighting the error and hope they're nice enough to leave a little bit as a finder's fee.
is that the richest person to ever roam the planet in history now?
Any chance the customers name was 'Wesley Gibson'?

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