I'm saving money for retirement, and someone was so kind to pay 3000 euro for me
 

I'm saving money for later, in some retirment insurance plan.

Anyway, I had to pay 3000 euro for that. I do have a BANK account, like

36 36 36 36 36

But they took the money from a POSTGIRO like 36 36 36 36 (postgiro has less numbers)

After 2 months I got a letter, asking if I would be so kind to pay 50 euro, because they could not charge it the first time.

I had no idea what was going on, called, and found out. To bad, I spoke to much, because now they know they made a mistake.

2 funny things

1. Postbank did allow the transaction, while my signature proberly does not mix the original account holder at all. ALso I assume I have a different name, and proberly different city

2. The guy/girl did not chargeback. So looks like some ppl do not miss 3000 euro.

Now I have still have to pay 3000 euro in stead of 50 damn :Oh crap

Now there is something special!!!
I used to work in a financial department. We had a millions of transactions going on. Postbank checks, doublechecks and triplechecks. In the four years I worked there I have only been able to catch them on a mistake like this twice...

andre, somehow this is really something for you

I'm ging to check my bank records now, I'm probably missing 3k

I know :1orglaugh

Maybe because they trusted "nationale nederlanden" also ING?

My friend works in a bank, it happens all the time .

My other friend haven't made a SINGLE car payment since he got his car 9 months ago

PB sucks dick. And talking about retirement let me hit up my accountant right away ;)

In the Netherlands with bank to bank transfers it happens all the time.
This bank is a special bank though. They work with a different system and used to be owned by the state.

No it still should not have happened.
The two times I discoverd it it was both on the same day. Turned out one of their systems broke down and they could only do a doublecheck instead of a triplecheck that day.
Very rare!

I'm special :) But good to hear it should be rare, because it's very bad