If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account ( Archived) (94)

Jul 16, 2009 8:19 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
Arealguy69
Arealguy69Arealguy69Auckland, New Zealand47 Threads 2 Polls 1,822 Posts
Now, for this excercise giving the money back to the bank is not an option, nor is alerting them of their error.
You have a week to do what you can with as much of the money as possible before the bank finds out and tries to recover it all and there will be charges laid against you so make it good.

This thread was inspired by this news story:

"A gas station owner here in New Zealand applied to a bank for a $10,000.00 loan.
The loan was approved but a human error at the bank saw the man receive $10,000,000.00 in his account.
When the error was discovered by the bank $6.9mil of the money was recovered but the rest is still outstanding.
The man and his wife have skipped the country and are reported to be in Hong Kong enquiries are continuing."
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Jul 16, 2009 8:21 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
hopefloats
hopefloatshopefloatsSlim's Lady, Tennessee USA51 Threads 6,660 Posts
happy place popcorn
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Jul 16, 2009 8:26 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
Snuggs09
Snuggs09Snuggs09Somewhere, New Jersey USA128 Threads 1 Polls 2,615 Posts
I'd give 2 million to my daughter and her husband

100,000 to every animal shelter in the U.S.

1 million to the Humane Society

1 Million to St. Jude's Hospital

Buy a boat and hire a crew to run it

Buy a house and a ranch in Montana

Buy a horse for the ranch

Put a chunk in the bank

Get my nails done rolling on the floor laughing

Buy a new body

And I'd buy me a lover to hang out on the boat cheering
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Jul 16, 2009 8:27 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
rose150T
rose150Trose150TVila Real, Portugal215 Posts
Arealguy69: Now, for this excercise giving the money back to the bank is not an option, nor is alerting them of their error.
You have a week to do what you can with as much of the money as possible before the bank finds out and tries to recover it all and there will be charges laid against you so make it good.

This thread was inspired by this news story:

"A gas station owner here in New Zealand applied to a bank for a $10,000.00 loan.
The loan was approved but a human error at the bank saw the man receive $10,000,000.00 in his account.
When the error was discovered by the bank $6.9mil of the money was recovered but the rest is still outstanding.
The man and his wife have skipped the country and are reported to be in Hong Kong enquiries are continuing."


Wasn't the owner of the gas station the director of the bank? or his cousin?

With all the scandals going on, all over the world with banks, I can think about any thing...
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Jul 16, 2009 8:28 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
Arealguy69
Arealguy69Arealguy69Auckland, New Zealand47 Threads 2 Polls 1,822 Posts
Snuggs09: I'd give 2 million to my daughter and her husband

100,000 to every animal shelter in the U.S.

1 million to the Humane Society

1 Million to St. Jude's Hospital

Buy a boat and hire a crew to run it

Buy a house and a ranch in Montana

Buy a horse for the ranch

Put a chunk in the bank

Get my nails done

Buy a new body

And I'd buy me a lover to hang out on the boat


Go Snuggs!!!!! rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
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Jul 16, 2009 8:30 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
Arealguy69
Arealguy69Arealguy69Auckland, New Zealand47 Threads 2 Polls 1,822 Posts
rose150T: Wasn't the owner of the gas station the director of the bank? or his cousin?

With all the scandals going on, all over the world with banks, I can think about any thing...
No the bank is an Australasian Corporate company.
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Jul 16, 2009 8:34 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
hopefloats
hopefloatshopefloatsSlim's Lady, Tennessee USA51 Threads 6,660 Posts
Snuggs.....the woman with a plan!cool grin wave
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Jul 16, 2009 8:35 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
CaptainBeirutIII
CaptainBeirutIIICaptainBeirutIIILondon, Greater London, England UK95 Threads 1 Polls 1,186 Posts
Snuggs09: I'd give 2 million to my daughter and her husband

100,000 to every animal shelter in the U.S.

1 million to the Humane Society

1 Million to St. Jude's Hospital

Buy a boat and hire a crew to run it

Buy a house and a ranch in Montana

Buy a horse for the ranch

Put a chunk in the bank

Get my nails done

Buy a new body

And I'd buy me a lover to hang out on the boat


I asked him to start this. It ain't really about what you would do with the money, this is how you would get away with the money.
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Jul 16, 2009 8:37 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
Arealguy69
Arealguy69Arealguy69Auckland, New Zealand47 Threads 2 Polls 1,822 Posts
CaptainBeirutIII: I asked him to start this. It ain't really about what you would do with the money, this is how you would get away with the money.
So Cap? what would you do?grin
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Jul 16, 2009 8:37 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
hopefloats
hopefloatshopefloatsSlim's Lady, Tennessee USA51 Threads 6,660 Posts
CaptainBeirutIII: I asked him to start this. It ain't really about what you would do with the money, this is how you would get away with the money.



Then he added to it Captain!rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing

"You have a week to do what you can with as much of the money as possible"
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Jul 16, 2009 8:38 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
Sommerauer71
Sommerauer71Sommerauer71Salzburg, Austria133 Threads 4 Polls 12,414 Posts
In response to: Now, for this excercise giving the money back to the bank is not an option, nor is alerting them of their error.
You have a week to do what you can with as much of the money as possible before the bank finds out and tries to recover it all and there will be charges laid against you so make it good.

This thread was inspired by this news story:

"A gas station owner here in New Zealand applied to a bank for a $10,000.00 loan.
The loan was approved but a human error at the bank saw the man receive $10,000,000.00 in his account.
When the error was discovered by the bank $6.9mil of the money was recovered but the rest is still outstanding.
The man and his wife have skipped the country and are reported to be in Hong Kong enquiries are continuing."
I can see the FBI being interested in this thread...
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Jul 16, 2009 8:39 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
CaptainBeirutIII
CaptainBeirutIIICaptainBeirutIIILondon, Greater London, England UK95 Threads 1 Polls 1,186 Posts
Arealguy69: Now, for this excercise giving the money back to the bank is not an option, nor is alerting them of their error.
You have a week to do what you can with as much of the money as possible before the bank finds out and tries to recover it all and there will be charges laid against you so make it good.

This thread was inspired by this news story:

"A gas station owner here in New Zealand applied to a bank for a $10,000.00 loan.
The loan was approved but a human error at the bank saw the man receive $10,000,000.00 in his account.
When the error was discovered by the bank $6.9mil of the money was recovered but the rest is still outstanding.
The man and his wife have skipped the country and are reported to be in Hong Kong enquiries are continuing."


Great!

First of all. How do we get hold of the money without alerting attention?

It's not like we can go to an ATM and withdraw.
And going into the bank to transfer to a Cayman Island bank account, I'm sure that over a certain limit, they double and triple check.

The key is to get the money out of the bank somehow, in cash (which would most likely be impossible, and an insane attempt), or a transfer.

A transfer to another bank seems less likely than a purchase of sort. Bonds, or gold.
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Jul 16, 2009 8:41 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
CaptainBeirutIII
CaptainBeirutIIICaptainBeirutIIILondon, Greater London, England UK95 Threads 1 Polls 1,186 Posts
Sommerauer71: I can see the FBI being interested in this thread...


The FBI is busy figuring out where the hell they have spent $45,000.000.000 over the past decade, and not a souvenir to show for it.
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Jul 16, 2009 8:44 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
cameraman
cameramancameramanSt. Petersburg, Florida USA29 Threads 19 Polls 2,501 Posts
I would withdraw all the money from the account before the bank takes back the money...

I will give out money in cash only so it cannot be traced back to me...

I would give dad mom sister two brother 2 mil each in cash...

I would give nieces and nephews 1 mil each in cash to their parent to hold for them till they reach 18...

I would go to Ace check cashing and get one of those throw away Debit Cards and just keep putting enough money in the card to buy things...

Whatever I do... I will never tell women "I got the money honey... Do you got the time"... Or would I???
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Jul 16, 2009 8:45 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
Snuggs09
Snuggs09Snuggs09Somewhere, New Jersey USA128 Threads 1 Polls 2,615 Posts
Arealguy69: Now, for this excercise giving the money back to the bank is not an option, nor is alerting them of their error.
You have a week to do what you can with as much of the money as possible before the bank finds out and tries to recover it all and there will be charges laid against you so make it good.

This thread was inspired by this news story:

"A gas station owner here in New Zealand applied to a bank for a $10,000.00 loan.
The loan was approved but a human error at the bank saw the man receive $10,000,000.00 in his account.
When the error was discovered by the bank $6.9mil of the money was recovered but the rest is still outstanding.
The man and his wife have skipped the country and are reported to be in Hong Kong enquiries are continuing."



Captain.......I correct you. He said "You have a week to do what you can with as much of the money as possible
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Jul 16, 2009 8:52 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
Ambrose2007
Ambrose2007Ambrose2007BFE, South Dakota USA67 Threads 10 Polls 8,881 Posts
First, there's the interesting question about whether the person who is mistakenly given a sum of money actually owes the money back. I think that's highly debatable. I see no a priori reason that the person or institution making that mistake isn't responsible for it.
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Jul 16, 2009 8:52 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
CaptainBeirutIII
CaptainBeirutIIICaptainBeirutIIILondon, Greater London, England UK95 Threads 1 Polls 1,186 Posts
Snuggs09: Captain.......I correct you. He said "You have a week to do what you can with as much of the money as possible


Well, then there was a misunderstanding between us, because my idea was to set up a plan as to get away with as much as possible. Not to spend as much as possible within a week. I could spend all of it at once in one night at a Casino, but where's the point with that? And you could buy every one in your family five houses each in a luxury resort, but what's the point when after a week they're taken away from them.

No, my idea was how to get away with it. How do you run away with as much as possible of $10mil, without getting caught.
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Jul 16, 2009 8:54 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
CaptainBeirutIII
CaptainBeirutIIICaptainBeirutIIILondon, Greater London, England UK95 Threads 1 Polls 1,186 Posts
cameraman: I would withdraw all the money from the account before the bank takes back the money...

I will give out money in cash only so it cannot be traced back to me...

I would give dad mom sister two brother 2 mil each in cash...

I would give nieces and nephews 1 mil each in cash to their parent to hold for them till they reach 18...

I would go to Ace check cashing and get one of those throw away Debit Cards and just keep putting enough money in the card to buy things...

Whatever I do... I will never tell women "I got the money honey... Do you got the time"... Or would I???


How do you withdraw $10 million within a week.

And again, you have nothing to give away until you've sorted how you'll be safe getting away with it, that's the core question.
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Jul 16, 2009 8:56 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
CaptainBeirutIII
CaptainBeirutIIICaptainBeirutIIILondon, Greater London, England UK95 Threads 1 Polls 1,186 Posts
Ambrose2007: First, there's the interesting question about whether the person who is mistakenly given a sum of money actually owes the money back. I think that's highly debatable. I see no a priori reason that the person or institution making that mistake isn't responsible for it.


Of course.
I've found wallets during the years, once with a LOT of money in it. I've always returned them. Without hesitation.

It has happened many times that someone working a cash register mistakenly has given me change back on a lot more than I handed to her/him, I have always pointed it out.

This, however, to me is different. It's stealing no doubt, but it's stealing from a thief.
Like from an insurance agency, among the worst thieves in the world.
Or finding a suitcase full of Colombian drug money, what would you do with that, hand it in to the cops?
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Jul 16, 2009 8:58 AM CST If $10,000,000.00 was mistakenly put into your account
hopefloats
hopefloatshopefloatsSlim's Lady, Tennessee USA51 Threads 6,660 Posts
This is an interesting thread guys.....popcorn nerd
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