Man's Debit Card Charged $23 Quadrillion, $15 Overdraft Fee

Man's Debit Card Charged $23 Quadrillion, $15 Overdraft Fee

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MANCHESTER, N.H. -- When Josh Muszynski checked his bank account online, he didn't expect to find a $23 quadrillion debit.
"If it were to be true that someone actually compromised that money and got that money, they could do some severe damage with that amount of money," he said.

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I guess this is everybody's worst nightmare. The only thing worse than this would be to have a bank that actually paid it out. I think this story is pretty funny, which is why I posted it. I guess the guy really could be the richest man in the world for about 24 hours, until the bank caught the error. Then he might be charged with bank fraud. I hope I now have enough commentary that my submission will be accepted.

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That's crazy!

My bank charges 35 dollars for overdrafts.

This is a big sign that banks are rewriting some of the code that keeps track of credit card accounts, most likely to their advantage.
That was a hefty amount, but what about the one dollar, five dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars or more that most folks will not catch,