Glass
19th January 2012, 05:27 AM
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A teacher in India was astounded when he checked his bank account to find he had more than $9b.
Given that his monthly salary is closer to $700, Parijat Saha expected his balance to be $200, the BBC reported.
"On Sunday evening, when I was checking my savings account balance on the internet, I was expecting an amount of a little more than 10,000 rupees ($200)," Mr Saha told the BBC.
The billions he found there instead have left him in shock.
"I called up a friend in the bank and joked, maybe money is overflowing in your bank, that's why your system has remitted so much money into my account," he said.
State Bank of India officials are trying to determine how the error occured - and say Mr Saha could not have withdrawn any of the money.
Lucky for the bank, though, that the honest Mr Saha alerted to the multi-million-dollar mistake.
But until the bank works out what happened the huge amount is still credited to Mr Saha's bank account.
"Even though I got my money back, the account still holds the billions of dollars as uncleared amount. I don't know how long I'll have to keep that astronomical figure in my account," he told the BBC.Article @ the West Australian Yahoo!7 (http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/offbeat/12652133/indian-teacher-s-9b-bank-balance/)
And the money is still there and they are trying to find out where it came from. Hack attack or money launder or just a glitch in the matrix?
So here's the rub. You go to check your account and find $9bil. You go, well ok. There's a mistake. What should I do? It's a biggie mistake.
If you flipped a coin. Heads they know what happened. Tails they won't be able to work out what happened.
I doubt anyone considers that slim possibility. They would just say nope, they will catch me. It's $9bil can't do nothing with it. If that $9bil went 1001 different ways, one of those ways would still be about $8mil. hmmm?
A teacher in India was astounded when he checked his bank account to find he had more than $9b.
Given that his monthly salary is closer to $700, Parijat Saha expected his balance to be $200, the BBC reported.
"On Sunday evening, when I was checking my savings account balance on the internet, I was expecting an amount of a little more than 10,000 rupees ($200)," Mr Saha told the BBC.
The billions he found there instead have left him in shock.
"I called up a friend in the bank and joked, maybe money is overflowing in your bank, that's why your system has remitted so much money into my account," he said.
State Bank of India officials are trying to determine how the error occured - and say Mr Saha could not have withdrawn any of the money.
Lucky for the bank, though, that the honest Mr Saha alerted to the multi-million-dollar mistake.
But until the bank works out what happened the huge amount is still credited to Mr Saha's bank account.
"Even though I got my money back, the account still holds the billions of dollars as uncleared amount. I don't know how long I'll have to keep that astronomical figure in my account," he told the BBC.Article @ the West Australian Yahoo!7 (http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/offbeat/12652133/indian-teacher-s-9b-bank-balance/)
And the money is still there and they are trying to find out where it came from. Hack attack or money launder or just a glitch in the matrix?
So here's the rub. You go to check your account and find $9bil. You go, well ok. There's a mistake. What should I do? It's a biggie mistake.
If you flipped a coin. Heads they know what happened. Tails they won't be able to work out what happened.
I doubt anyone considers that slim possibility. They would just say nope, they will catch me. It's $9bil can't do nothing with it. If that $9bil went 1001 different ways, one of those ways would still be about $8mil. hmmm?