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Man Charged $23,148,855,308,184,500 for Cigarettes
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:25 am
by Nayu
A man who was charged a staggering $23 quadrillion for a packet of cigarettes has fortunately managed to avoid paying the bill.
The New Hampshire resident bought a packet of cigarettes at a Mobil petrol station using his Visa credit card, but when he returned home he discovered he had been charged rather more than he expected.
Eventually he managed to clear up the matter with the issuing Bank of America, and was naturally relieved not to have to pay the bill.
Visa downplayed the blunder, described as an “inaccuracy”:
“A temporary programming error at Visa Debit Processing Services, caused some transactions to be inaccurately posted to a small number of Visa prepaid accounts.
The technical glitch, which impacted fewer than 13,000 Visa prepaid transactions, has been corrected and erroneous postings have been removed.
Importantly, this incident had no financial impact on Visa prepaid cardholders.
Visa regrets any inconvenience to our customers and has taken immediate steps to ensure this error doesn’t occur again.”
Via
Itai News.The US GDP is only $14 trillion, so by not making this man pay an opportunity to increase the US GDP by 16,200% has been lost; such are the wonders of national income accounting…
Re: Man Charged $23,148,855,308,184,500 for Cigarettes
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:30 am
by DarkJackal
Saw a video of this, there was also another incident of a woman who had 800+ million dollars deposited into her acc, she called the bank and fixed the "problem" though.
Re: Man Charged $23,148,855,308,184,500 for Cigarettes
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:31 am
by Mirosuke
Uh, exposed...
Re: Man Charged $23,148,855,308,184,500 for Cigarettes
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:47 am
by *BlackFox
Wow, What a nightmare!
Re: Man Charged $23,148,855,308,184,500 for Cigarettes
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:41 pm
by Swindler
That most been some hella of high class Cigarettes for that kinda price.
Re: Man Charged $23,148,855,308,184,500 for Cigarettes
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:50 pm
by chesticles
well i know they approved a cigarette tax but DAMN!!!
Re: Man Charged $23,148,855,308,184,500 for Cigarettes
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:59 pm
by Tasdik
This is why you shouldn't smoke. ; )
DarkJackal wrote: there was also another incident of a woman who had 800+ million dollars deposited into her acc, she called the bank and fixed the "problem" though.
Lol, I would've kept it.
Re: Man Charged $23,148,855,308,184,500 for Cigarettes
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:49 pm
by Kirkaldi
Saw this on TV. The guy wasn't even scared, he was as calm as a monk.
Re: Man Charged $23,148,855,308,184,500 for Cigarettes
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:20 pm
by satman83
Tasdik wrote:This is why you shouldn't smoke. ; )
DarkJackal wrote: there was also another incident of a woman who had 800+ million dollars deposited into her acc, she called the bank and fixed the "problem" though.
Lol, I would've kept it.
No you wouldnt of. A few years back here (UK) a women was given 400k by mistake and
told the banks (who took about months to do anything like they normally do 
). in
the mean time she spent about £10 worth of the 400k.
And was then arrested for fraud and theft (using money nor hers), yes it was the banks
mistake (and was finally sorted out) but she was blamed for using the money they
gave her.