• Indian teacher finds $9.8 billion in his bank account
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[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/xBPTH.jpg[/IMG] [release]Parijat Saha, an Indian school teacher with a monthly pay of $700, was shocked when he checked his savings account bank balance with the State Bank of India (SBI) and found that his bank had credited him with an astronomical sum of $9.8 billion. Saha, rather than make the tempting assumption that he had just won a lottery sum, called the bank and pointed out the error. Saha said: "I called up a friend in the bank and joked, maybe money is overflowing in your bank, that's why your system has remitted so much money into my account." According to BBC, Saha, a school teacher in Balurghat, in the South Dinajpur district of West Bengal, had actually been expecting to find a balance of about 10,000 rupees(about $200) in his bank account when he found, instead, that he had 490 billion rupees($9.8bn), enough money to finance the entire education budget of India. Officials of SBI, a government run bank under the motto "Safe Banking with SBI," were greatly embarrassed by the incident and are keeping mum on the source of the gigantic sum that was accidentally moved into Saha's account. BBC reports that Subhashish Karmakar, chief manager of the bank's branch in Balurghat, refused to speak about the source of the funds. Karmakar said: "I have been specifically asked not to comment on this issue." Bank officials have only claimed that the funds were "uncleared" and that Saha could not have withdrawn cash even if he had tried. The bank's regional headquarters in Calcutta and the national headquarters in Mumbai have been alerted and officials are investigating the source of the funds. But while bank officials are at their investigations, Saha could still brag to his friends that he is a man with billions in bank account balance. He explains: "Even though I got my [$200] back, the account still holds the billions of dollars as uncleared amount. I don't know how long I'll have to keep that astronomical figure in my account." IB Times reports that even if Saha were allowed to keep the money, he would not have ranked anywhere close to the wealthiest man in India. IB Times, quoting Forbes magazine, says the richest man in India is the steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, with a networth of about $31.1 billion. [/release] [url]http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/318127[/url]
I wish.
I would have withdrew a large amount and reported the rest to the bank
[QUOTE=BigOwl;34287947]I would have withdrew a large amount and reported the rest to the bank[/QUOTE] Congratulations, you are now guilty of theft.
[QUOTE=BigOwl;34287947]I would have withdrew a large amount and reported the rest to the bank[/QUOTE] You do realize how impossibly easy it is for the bank to check for that right?
[QUOTE=BigOwl;34287947]I would have withdrew a large amount and reported the rest to the bank[/QUOTE] [quote] Bank officials have only claimed that the funds were "uncleared" and that Saha could not have withdrawn cash even if he had tried. [/quote]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GHX8dvuFUQ[/media] Wow, just looking on your account and seeing this number must have given him a heart attack.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;34287964]Congratulations, you are now guilty of theft.[/QUOTE] How is it theft if it was given to you? Their error, not your crime.
[QUOTE=Jurikuer;34288010]How is it theft if it was given to you? Their error, not your crime.[/QUOTE] You know that money is not rightfully yours, you know that it was a mistake and yet you purposefully go and spend it. Your responsibility. We had the same thing happen here a while back. Some woman received a few 100 thousand euros from the local council which she knew wasn't supposed to be hers and blew it all on a house and vacations.
[QUOTE]and officials are investigating the source of the funds. [/QUOTE] It would be pretty awesome if they find that the source of the funds was Nigeria. :v:
If his money turns out to be legit I wonder what he would do with it, being one of the richest.
I would fucking SHIT myself if I woke up one day and that's what my bank account showed.
[QUOTE=Shugo;34288046]I would fucking SHIT myself if I woke up one day and that's what my bank account showed.[/QUOTE] Imagine if it weren't a bank error, All completely legit money. I would literally shit MYSELF. I would shit another whole me.
[QUOTE=Jurikuer;34288010]How is it theft if it was given to you? Their error, not your crime.[/QUOTE] not really given... just misplaced I guess. not his money to take. same shit happened to me one morning when I went to pick up some drinks at a store. I went to the ATM to withdraw money, and apparently I had 11 million $ in my account. The thought came across my mind to withdraw as much as the ATM could give out, then run away and escape the country, then I snapped back to reality and realized how stupid that'd be and that I'd probably be bent into a 90degree angle with big jamal in a cell within a couple of hours. I just left it and walked away lol.
It's like people [I]try[/I] to not read the article.
This man deserves a reward for being honest
Only 200$. ):
I was wondering where I left that.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;34287964]Congratulations, you are now guilty of theft.[/QUOTE] Not theft but illegal enrichment. Which though is a crime as well.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;34288543]Not theft but illegal enrichment. Which though is a crime as well.[/QUOTE] That sounds more like a definition of the monetary part of theft.
It's not a crime if the bank clears it.
Wonder if he was contacted by the daughter of a very rich dead Nigerian prince that needed to get the money out of the country.
i wouldnt have said shit and transfered the monthly interests over to another account. damages nobody, shouldnt be illegal and makes you some money.
[QUOTE=BloodYScar;34288914]i wouldnt have said shit and transfered the monthly interests over to another account. damages nobody, shouldnt be illegal and makes you some money.[/QUOTE] Congratulations, you disregarded the entire article and every post before yours: [QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;34287964]Congratulations, you are now guilty of theft.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Jurikuer;34288010]How is it theft if it was given to you? Their error, not your crime.[/QUOTE] Oh man, someone left this nice car in my yard. It's mine now! It's their fault so I'm not committing a crime!
[QUOTE=LuckyLuke;34289172]Congratulations, you disregarded the entire article and every post before yours:[/QUOTE] Actually, I'm not entirely sure that's illegal. Happened over here too. A couple got monthly payments that they knew they had no right to. 3 months and several letters without any response later, they still got them. In the meantime, they had set up a separate savings account and put every penny of the payments in there to make sure. When the payments stopped and the senders found out, they demanded to also get the interest the couple had accumulated. If I'm not mistaken, the judge said no.
[QUOTE=kenshin6;34288133]This man deserves a reward for being honest[/QUOTE] He does. At the very least, he did the smart thing. If he tried to take it, the bank would've found out and come down on him like a ton of bricks.
[QUOTE=Jurikuer;34288010]How is it theft if it was given to you? Their error, not your crime.[/QUOTE] u r dumb i don't like u
Bank error in your favor, collect 9.8 billion.
I'd give a lot of the money back, but I know that here in norway, a transaction gone to the wrong account means they belong to whoever recieved the money. A bank error is another thing, but if someone wrote the wrong account number, they would be fucked unless he CHOSE to give them the money.
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