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Bank error in your favor, collect several trillion dollars

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[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Just a number in a database...

If the customer acted really fast he might have been able to yoink some of that out of there in the form of a wire to another bank.

[-] Sphks@jlai.lu 1 points 3 hours ago

How can we know for sure that it is an error ?

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 44 points 14 hours ago

doge treasury dept intern: "whoops, that was supposed to go to the president's.. i mean, elon's, personal account. my bad."

[-] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 10 points 14 hours ago

You mean President Elon’s

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 40 points 15 hours ago
[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago

It sure buys real things.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 16 points 14 hours ago

this is how we end up with sov cits.

Everything is fake. But if men with guns say it's real then treating it as such is a matter of survival.

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Aren't sovcits like the polar opposite view and believe that the "system" is so real and literal that they can recite magic contract language to get free money and have laws no longer apply to them?

[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 14 hours ago

you'd think anything over a few million would be flagged for manual review. such a basic systems check.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 19 points 14 hours ago

you can have that money back, just lemme have the interest earned over those few hours.

[-] JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee 15 points 14 hours ago

But hey that still counts as $162 trillion added to the gdp

[-] AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Any chance the customers name was 'Wesley Gibson'?

this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
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