Bank Deposits $8 Million By Mistake. Recipient Fled!

[JetsetBkk]

I would be enjoying sundowners on Lord Lucans estate as we engaged Mr Bin Laden in debate.

I'll join you - I'd be the one trotting around on Shergar.

[sassienie]

I'd give it back.

Just because someone parks their Benz in front of your house don't mean its yours.

Funny that the gasbags who wheeze on day and night about Thais, have the same serious lack of integrity themselves.

Well said.

Firstly, one would have to be looking over their shoulder everywhere he/she goes, plus it`s only a matter of time before they`re caught, anyway.

[a99az]

I would be enjoying sundowners on Lord Lucans estate as we engaged Mr Bin Laden in debate.

I'll join you - I'd be the one trotting around on Shergar.

It’s like this, I visit Sweden with the wife to see my daughter and go to the bank there to change 100 GBP I give the bank teller 5 times 20GBP notes she asks me if I would like it in 500Kroner notes. OK I said and she starts counting a large pile out then hands them over to me. I felt it was some how not correct but did not want to look stupid if it was correct and as I walked out the bank kept doing the math over and over. I thought the bank must be correct the would not give me a grand in exchange for 100 pounds, but they did and we had a free holiday. So 8 very big ones would go so fast that you would never see me again, for sure

[Carib]

I hope all the " runners" on this forum will react in the same lighthearted way whenever a mistake will be made in their disadvantage and not start yelling that they were robbed and would sue and so on.

A mistake is a mistake, it wouldn't enter my mind for even a second to run. And no, I am not rich, but decent.

[IMA_FARANG]

Oh yes, I would be running as quick as I could too.

But just to be honest...the law is clear...irregardless of the Bank's mistake...you have no right to the money if you knew at the time that the deposit was a mistake.

If they knew taht the deposit was in error...if they had no reasonable chance of expecting a 10 million NZ dollar to be expected instead of a 10,000 NZ dollar deposit....then they are guilty of defrauding the bank.

Yes, I know that sounds like Cr#p, but the law says they had to notify the Bank of the Bank's error.

No, I probably wouldn't do it either....but it is the law...and attempting to withdraw that amount when you had no reasonalble expectation of recieving that amount is fraud.

When I was in the Faroe Islands a woman working in a travel agency changed some foriegn currency in a local Faroese bank.

The bank clerk made a mistake and changed the U.S. dollars presented to her for Danish kroner as British pounds instead of U.S. dollars. The dolllar/pound rate was approx 2 dollars for one pound at that time, so the woman from the travel agency recieved almost double the correct amount of Danish Kroner. She was in a hurry and didn't count the Kroner. When she got back to the travel agency the bank had already called, and a very polite Faroese policeman was waiting to "escort" her bank to the bank to correct the error. All very polite, but quite firm and insistant. From what I understand the difference was only about 50,000 Kroner. (I think it was about 6 Kroner to a dollar then).

No, you can't get away with it...and if you do you're a criminal the rest of your life...at least as far as the bank is concerned.

[JohnGotti]

"Yes, I know that sounds like Cr#p, but the law says they had to notify the Bank of the Bank's error."

LOL at that sounding like crap. What, did you want to yell FINDERS KEEPERS??? What if I go into a store and empty the register into my hand bag and say "You have 5 SECONDS to claim this money as yours otherwise I get to keep it"... i can only imagine what other logic of a 6 year old you use on a daily basis.

Edited May 22, 2009 by JohnGotti

[lilornarymess]

The Bible says.... In the last days the wealth of the wicked will be transferred to the righteous..

[Camelot]

Wasting time on this board, then. No righteous here.