Bank error in your favor. Collect $100!
 

What's the largest amount any bank ever gave you by mistake? Once a cashier entered a check amount wrong, giving me an extra $300. More than once I've been given an extra $100 bill by mistake.

Did I return the extra money? ... Sometimes.

Once bank gave me extra 150$ via bank machiene. That was very nice....

never happened to me :(

$40 once. Took out $60 and was given $100 by the ATM

I remember a few months back, and ATM machine was giving out £20 notes, instead £10.

Everyone was on their cell phone calling everybody to get down and withdraw some money quick. :1orglaugh

Wasn't long before the machine was empty... :winkwink:

$20 bucks extra at an atm machine in Ithaca. I was in college so for me that was like 4 cases of Milwaukees Best! Woo Hoo!

$5,000 deposited in my checking account from a $500 check. They corrected it a week later. It made me sad. :(

I love hearing about the morons that think the ATM made a mistake, and then all their friends are going to that same ATM and getting more money out. I remember seeing it on the news once. The bank has logs of how much money is actually dispensed and they had to pay back every penny.

i usually loose money and catch it later

Don't think they ever given me money by mistake, but I know they short me a few times.

They gave me an extra $70 once but it was corrected a few weeks later.

my bank seems to be on top of shit never had a bank error in my favor

if its thru a teller there is a good chance they will find it

Never happened to me

Not my bank but a third party biller once wired me twice, to the tune of abut $3k in my favour. I was too honest and returned the dupe even though I could have just ignored them (it was my final payment). They would have been down about $80-100 in fees and currency conversion losses for that mistake.

Another time I received a letter from the bank a couple of weeks after we settled some land saying that an audit had picked up an error and we were due a $500ish refund. The land sales company gave us a discount for early settlement but the bank didn't take this into account when calculating stamp duty, so they charged too much.

It wasn't so much an error in our favour, more finding that we had been overcharged. I probably wouldn't have noticed it myself.

I've had 6 figure errors in my favor. Of course they corrected the mistake fast, but I was able to keep the nice amount of interest it generated.

I remember seeing on a current affairs story that a bank accidentally deposited $120k into a woman's account. She transferred some to another account then back to see if it was real. The bank found the error quickly (or she reported it, can't remember) but they refused to refund the tax that our state govt used to impose on deposits... which included electronic transfers. From memory it was something like $800 (x2) she had to cough up because of the bank's error.

thats fucked up :(

$3500. About 15 years ago I cashed in a GIC for $3500. A few days later I noticed they'd credited it to my bank acount twice. I just kept quiet about it to see what would happen. Several weeks later they took the money out of my account.

teller once gave me $50 extra , i spent the next 20mins debating with myself whether to give it back ,i knew that that the teller would get the $50 taken out of her pay , so i did the right thing and handed it back to her

my bank always gets it right.

banks have super super good record keeping, i had $8k dumped into my acct twice by mistake, used it! took them 2 months to figure out they doubled me up..had to return it. =(

My Internet Provider once showed an extra $300 on my account by mistake. They never corrected it, thank god!
As for banks they only steal from me, never give extra!

i have never have luck to be given extra cash... i owe always when i go to bank...

Can't recall a bank error in my favor. Got the kids donuts the other morning, and the lady charged my debit card $385.00 Waiting for it to be credited back. Told the kids they better enjoy those damn donuts!:1orglaugh

What was the charge supposed to be? $3.85?

I returned a $799 item for a refund once (on my credit card) and the noob put it through as a purchase! Luckily I noticed before I signed.

Charge was $18.42 (house FULL of kids). She did $182.42, tried to credit it, charged $182.42 again, then charged the $18.42:1orglaugh

We had a $1200 error once in our favor... they corrected it weeks later though.

i'm never that lucky

with all the "big brother" electronic records and cameras, can't imagine that banks can't trace big mistakes right back to the second it happened