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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)

submitted 20 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Bank error in your favor, collect several trillion dollars

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours 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.