Woman Finds $10 Billion in Checking Account

AP ^ | 10/23/02

[MTCJK]

What an idiot--loose lips sink big balances

[mlmr]

My first reaction?

"Thank you Lord, thank you!!

[mlmr]

My first reaction?

"Thank you Lord, thank you!!

[The G Man]

Sniper?

[john in missouri]

"I thought this money doesn't belong to me. Something must be wrong."

Ya think??

Obviously a Democrat.

[Constitutional Patriot]

When I saw the title my first reaction was "God let this be my wife.."

[Lucas1]

Wow on the interest...heh

[Howlin]

ROFLMAO.

[Always Right]

What an idiot--loose lips sink big balances

I really think they would have found out pretty soon anyways. If she was a theif, her best bet would have been to transfer a big chunk of the money into another account in another country and move there.

[john in missouri]

Lol. That would've been my first reaction as well.

Unfortunately, my second reactions would've been, "If I spend any of this, I'm going to be in deep manure."

[goldstategop]

The Swedish welfare state almost went bankrupt... lol

[robertpaulsen]

Wait a minute. Was that money from a Mr.Afred Mahon from Nigeria?

[blackdog]

Better than the time I had my checking account overdrawn to the tune of $188,000 plus change. It seems someone fat fingered keying all the daily checking debits from Giant Food Stores and they hit my account. Instant ruin that took me three damn weeks to get corrected. About a year later I went to an ATM machine and I had a positive balance of $360,000 when withdrawing twenty bucks! Funny though, that was corrected the next day. I saved the receipt though.

[Tired of Taxes]

That happens very often (though usually in the thousands, not for billions of dollars). Years ago, my husband worked in a job correcting such errors for a bank. Usually, the account holders would see the error and make a quick withdrawal, then spend it all. The bank would have to settle for something like $10/month pay-back from the customer, who ended up with an interest-free loan! When they asked one woman, "Didn't you know that the $100,000 wasn't yours?" She responded, "But, I was praying for it, and I thought God gave it to me."

[tubebender]

I thought I had found my long lost love...I'll keep looking.

[mlmr]

I don't know, what would be the interest charges on 10 billion per minute for being in my account...

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

You have a really stupid person working in bookkeeping at your bank! lol

[lelio]

had a positive balance of $360,000 when withdrawing twenty bucks!
If that happened to me my fingers would of been worn out going from ATM to ATM withdrawing funds. Wonder what $100k in $20 bills would look like in my wallet.

[Straight Vermonter]

This story is outrageously funny.