For most people it would be a dream come true, but
a woman in Australia said she was stressed out
after her bank balance was unexpectedly bumped
up to almost $10 million [£5million].
On Saturday Sue Lamb used a Bank Of Queensland
cashpoint to take $100 from her ANZ account. To
her surprise the bank receipt after the withdrawal
said that her available balance stood at $
9,990,420.94 - around £5million.
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Initially the 49-year-old wrote on her Facebook
page: "Okey dokey. Just checked my credit card
which has a limit of $50k and guess what!!! I'm a
millionaire!!!! Check out the balance. Plus I've got no
debt on it sooo strange. Lol woo hooo let's goooooo
girls Tahiti sounds nice. Best I fess up"
But when she called the bank to notify them of the
error, a customer service worker insisted that it
was her money and there was nothing he could do,
she told Daily Mail Australia .
"I said "It's not my money" and he said "But it's a
compound of all your company's funds", but I don't
have a company, I'm a sole trader.
"This gentleman didn't seem too concerned, he was
more concerned with telling me that they were my
funds," she said.
But when Ms Lamb checked her account again two
days later she found that the extra money had
disappeared.
She said: "They've really caused grave stress for
my family... I've seen stories around the world
where people get in a lot of trouble for this."
A spokesperson for the bank confirmed that the
extra money was showing as a result of an error
made by the bank.
"The available balance on the BOQ ATM receipt
refers to the amount of the monthly spend cap
rather than the available credit,' a spokesperson
told the Daily Mail Australia.
'We're investigating why the BOQ’s receipt is
showing the monthly spend cap rather than the
actual balance."

Lol. It has happened to my sister before. They sent her credit alert for some millions of Naira and within minutes, they sent her another alert and her account balance had gone back to normal.

Most people would withdraw half or transfer to another bank and leave for Spain or Bahamas

Myself inclusive