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.
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
120 points (98.4% liked)
Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'
1196 readers
191 users here now
Rules:
-
News must be from a reliable source. No tabloids or sensationalism, please.
-
Try to keep it safe for work. Contact a moderator before posting if you have any doubts.
-
Titles of articles must remain unchanged; however extraneous information like "Watch:" or "Look:" can be removed. Titles with trailing, non-relevant information can also be edited so long as the headline's intent remains intact.
-
Be nice. If you've got nothing positive to say, don't say it.
Violators will be banned at mod's discretion.
Communities We Like:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
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.
How can we know for sure that it is an error ?
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
It sure buys real things.
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?
you'd think anything over a few million would be flagged for manual review. such a basic systems check.
Sounds like a bunch of commie talk. Let the free market decide where the money goes
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.
That's my point. It's in place and probably still failed. It happens.
yes and my point was the automated flagged probably wasnt in place ;). That or the UI fucked up and truncated the value in a manner that lead to it looking much smaller =p
Yeah I've seen both of those as well
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.
Yeah everyone thinks they know what GDP is too
Any chance the customers name was 'Wesley Gibson'?