Chase should probably have just not commented on this one... it makes them look even more stupid and unresponsive than they really are. I have been through similar nonsense trying to navigate their idiotic phone system. It is ridiculous.
Posted on 06/22/2021 6:39:13 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Florida woman reportedly wanted to withdraw $20 from an ATM and was stunned to discover her account boasted what she believed was a jaw-dropping balance of nearly $1 billion.
When Julia Yonkowski, of Largo, checked her Chase Bank balance before making the small withdrawal Saturday, her receipt showed $999,985,855.94 in her account, WFLA reported.
The stunned customer told the outlet that she wanted to return the massive amount because she could not get a real person to talk to at her bank.
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How in the world does a bank make a mistake that big??
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Someone doing data entry who has narcolepsy nodded off for a few seconds when their hand was on the 9 key?
What I wonder is if this was really a mistake. I call shenanigans. Someone was moving money around and didn’t expect anyone to be checking that account at that exact moment.
1) Clearly it’s not her money, so she better not spend a penny of it.
2) The IRS is going to send her a massive tax bill.
Explain to the bank that you need to make a withdrawal of $20 million in cash, even if it takes a few days
then sell your house, and move to a non-extraditable country & retire
people dream about mistakes like this!!
Maybe the bank didn’t make a mistake. Maybe Biden is now giving everyone $1 billion to help stimulate the economy. I’d like to say more, but I’ve got to go check my bank balance.
Computer glitch.
I once worked for a company and they were bringing in a new system to handle man-hours/leave. I came in on a Monday after wrapping up two weeks of leave, and I had around 60,000 hours of leave on my account. Once they discovered the glitch...they corrected back to the amount I had before the leave. So I got 80 man-hours of vacation free of charge.
I’d like to withdraw all of it in pennies, please...
Chase should probably have just not commented on this one... it makes them look even more stupid and unresponsive than they really are. I have been through similar nonsense trying to navigate their idiotic phone system. It is ridiculous.
Rounding error. lol.
In that case the Zimbabwe 1 trillion dollar bill should start becoming common place here in the USA.
Rather, deposit all of it into a tax exempt bond fund. Then wait for the bank to discover the error and give them the principle back, keeping the tax free interest.
That’s why it’s funny. Or not. I don’t consider the IRS to be smart, fair, reasonable.
I'm sorry Julia I'm afraid I cannot correct this error.
LOL....
She could claim ignorance....as in...I didn’t know how the money got there, and I sure didn’t know how to get it back to where it came from.....merely safe keeping :-)
Meanwhile, she earned some nice interest....until the ‘glitch’ was discovered.
wrong digit or two on the account number can easily be fat fingered.
However, this speaks to poor quality control. A transfer should never be permitted until the job has been verified.
Keep the interest ,LOL
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