http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/01/africa/south-africa-student-deposit-mistake-trnd/index.html
Did she seriously think she was going to get away with this?
Oh god!
If she had invested the money in a cd, she probably could have made 10k in a year before the agency found the issue at the end of their fiscal year.
And we were appalled at the woman who got the free comforter.
^^ At South African fixed deposit interest rates she would get about 8% in a year.
Years ago a good friend of mine had 100K deposited into her account mistakenly. When she tried to tell the bank about the mistake, the bank insisted on there was no mistake. It took them few weeks to figure out where the money should have gone. My friend told the bank they would be responsible for any taxes she should incur over their mistake.
Bank error in your favor. Collect $1 million.
Go directly to jail.
Accidentally depositing $1M instead of $100, stupid. Spending $60k of money you know shouldn’t be yours without verifying it, stupider. One is a mistake and regardless where it took place the other one has to be a felony.
There is already a thread in the cafe about this.
Maybe the mods can merge this one with that one.
DH is currently on a pre-retirement unpaid leave of absence. His company can’t seem to figure out how to stop paying him. His boss has been trying to fix this for almost two months now and has given up. DH made his second call to payroll and HR yesterday, and they just said they’d look into it. Obviously, we’re not spending the funds, but it’s inconvenient to track. His boss said it might be easier to just flip the switch on the LOA from unpaid to paid and just consider it a bonus.
Now I want to know about the comforter…
@onward, here’s the comforter thread -
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/2012594-morally-ambiguous-p1.html
Threads merged.
This sort of happened to me when I closed on a house and supposedly paid off two loans at the same time. I could not figure out why I had an extra $35,000, but was mighty happy about it. A month later, my mortgage on the property was auto withdrawn as it had been when I owned the house. Oh…mortgage company forgot to pay off one of the loans at closing.
I once got a paycheck for an entire year’s salary rather than half a month’s worth. The payroll people had changed to a new system, which obviously had its glitches.
Sadly, all of us who got the big checks were told within an hour that we should not cash them because they would bounce and that new checks would be issued the next day. But it was fun while it lasted.
(Wow, this incident was a long time ago. But you already knew that because I was talking about actual paychecks. I wonder what happens if similar errors occur today, after the money has been direct deposited in people’s bank accounts.)