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

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

Bank error in your favor, collect several trillion dollars

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adarza @lemmy.ca 8mo ago
doge treasury dept intern: "whoops, that was supposed to go to the president's.. i mean, elon's, personal account. my bad."
- GuyFawkes @midwest.social 8mo ago
  You mean President Elon’s
theunknownmuncher @lemmy.world 8mo ago
Money is so fake lmao
- metaStatic @kbin.earth 8mo ago
  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.
  
  theunknownmuncher @lemmy.world 8mo ago
  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?
- nocturne @sopuli.xyz 8mo ago
  It sure buys real things.
jatone @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago
you'd think anything over a few million would be flagged for manual review. such a basic systems check.
- Album @lemmy.ca 8mo ago
  It probably was and still accidentally approved. It happens. I see four eyes or maker checker processes fail all the time.
  
  jatone @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago
  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.
- Raiderkev @lemmy.world 8mo ago
  Sounds like a bunch of commie talk. Let the free market decide where the money goes
adarza @lemmy.ca 8mo ago
you can have that money back, just lemme have the interest earned over those few hours.
JeSuisUnHombre @lemm.ee 8mo ago
But hey that still counts as $162 trillion added to the gdp
- Album @lemmy.ca 8mo ago
  That's not how GDP is calculated, a better joke would be "... Added to M1"
  
  Linktank @lemmy.today 8mo ago
  Yeah everyone knows what M1 is. Duh.
londos @lemmy.world 8mo ago
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.
Sphks @jlai.lu 8mo ago
How can we know for sure that it is an error ?
nucleative @lemmy.world 8mo ago
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.
- 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠 @programming.dev 8mo ago
  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.
IO 😇 @lemmy.blahaj.zone 8mo ago
is that the richest person to ever roam the planet in history now?
AnAustralianPhotographer @lemmy.world 8mo ago

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