Josh Muszynski checked his account online a few hours after the purchase and saw the 17-digit number – a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).
Mr Muszynski told WMUR-TV that he spent two hours on the phone with Bank of America trying to sort out the string of numbers – and the $15 overdraft fee.
The bank corrected the error the next day.
Bank of America said the card issuer, Visa, could answer questions. Visa, in turn, referred questions to the bank.
That’s putme off buying fags!
Feel slightly better about my overdraft now! Thanks
How can they charge an account is there is not enough money on it or a high enough limit?
Happens to a colleage of me as well, although a slightly smaller amount, his account got charged for 500 euro instead of 50 euro after having had a meal in a restaurant. No refund as he did not have the bill of the restaurant and the restaurant apparently did not keep track of purchases customers in such a way that they could track it …
Keeping an eye on the digitals (with working mind) when you slip your card through the machine and are asked to press OK … Not a bad idea …
I wish that could happen to me man …. that they could even take such an amount from my account …..
Probably a different system in America … And oh man, do they need to keep an eye on their cards and such .. once you’ve have it in your hands you can drain someone’s account till the max apparently (well .. apparently there is not even an max !).
Ah HA!
So that’s why all the world’s money has gone missing!
Whats happened here obviously is the company has mistaken ‘cigarettes’, for ‘the cost of the Bush administration’.
Its an easy mistake to make:
-They both kill millions of people indiscriminately,
-They both came with grave warnings about long term exposure (and yet people still bought them),
-They both take your money and promise far more than they actually deliver,
-Everyone would be much better off if we had fired them into space the minute we found out how bad they actually were for us.