And while he claims to have quit, I think we all know who to place at the scene of this crime (he uses aliases of various RIEF investors when purchasing smokes).
A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.Josh Muszynski (Moo-SIN'-ski) checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number -- a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).
Muszynski says he spent two hours on the phone with Bank of America trying to sort out the string of numbers and the $15 overdraft fee.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 10:49AM
that was my fault, I'm still learning how to swipe debit cards.
-Ken L.
Posted by merkin capital partners , Jul 15, 2009 10:50AM
KL was going to make it rain at the Crazy Horse. (Only place to get Boone's bottle service, obv)
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 10:53AM
Foiled again. Shitmotherfuckermotherfuckfuckshitpiss.
-KL
Posted by NakedShort , Jul 15, 2009 10:54AM
How dare he do that when he still has my money!
-MW
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 10:54AM
I wonder if they wud've waived the service fee right away if the purchase was boones farm
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 10:54AM
Government's plan to solve all deficit problems, random charging of quadrillion to unsuspecting citizens. Someone's auto-pay will take care of all our problems.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 10:56AM
I have got to try this.
-pandito
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 10:57AM
deficit. solved.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 10:57AM
Wait, what's the problem? It seems like a simple rounding error to me.
-B.Lo
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 10:57AM
same thing for Visa to guy in Dallas. http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2009/jul/15/credit-card-company-says-trophy-club-man-ate-23-qu/
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 10:58AM
not to nitpick, but B of A charges a $35 overdraft fee, not including the $45 correction fee for having the $35 overdraft charge taken off.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 11:07AM
The best part is that it took BoA 2 hours to realize that the guy did NOT actually spend $23 quadrillion on smokes.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 11:08AM
Government's plan to solve all deficit problems, random charging of quadrillion to unsuspecting citizens. Someone's auto-pay will take care of all our problems.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 11:09AM
@6/13 does the government's plan to solve all deficit problems also include double posting?
-curious in DC
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 11:14AM
@10: How weird is it that the amounts are identical? Are those the "Lost" numbers?
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 11:18AM
Yeah, the $15 will more than cover the loss(s) incurred by the bank for every second the scumbag had 'their' money.
Not even the Frenchies are this bad.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 11:21AM
Kenny calls this a "party foul."
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 11:21AM
That's 10 decimal places higher than my yearly drinking tab!
-Ken L.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 11:27AM
My b, guys, my b.
-KL
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 11:28AM
Samir: Is there some way to just give the money back?
Peter: What? You mean just hand them a check for the exact amount they're missing? I think they'd figure that out.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 11:31AM
Incidentally, 23 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars still wouldn't get you a pack of Marbies.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 11:31AM
dude could have just sold that gold watch to pay it off...i bought one on the street for $20, but resale on it will be huge
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 11:32AM
That be the new health care tax.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 11:33AM
Hey wait till you see the bill for a double bacon cheeseburger or god forbid a couple of jelly doughnuts.
Regards,
Ken Lewis, Ex-CEO of a private sector bank now a govt. employee in charge of consumer behavioir modification for the upcoming govt. intervention into healthcare.
P.S. Guns are next.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 11:58AM
The dude screwed up! He should have returned the smokes for a refund and got the $23 Quadrillion credited to his account. One moneywire to Barbados away from retirement!!!! Yeah, Baby!
Posted by Anal_yst , Jul 15, 2009 12:10PM
Simons (staring with an unrequited love at a pack of Reds): I...CAN'T...QUIT...YOU!!!!
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 12:23PM
he should've just left the charge alone... it'd probably helped BOA make their numbers for the next quarter if they started charging him interest on it.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 12:42PM
25% interest on $23 quadrillion is too high.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 1:54PM
@25 FTW
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 2:43PM
that's a lot of money.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 3:18PM
We can buy China and all the newly minted whores there right now.
KL
Posted by KevinB , Jul 15, 2009 3:38PM
@15 - My guess is this is some weird kind of binary overflow. Or maybe it's some programmer's revenge for being stuck in the back room and shat upon by everyone. I kinda like the latter.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 5:17PM
I'm surprised that they didn't tell him to pay the bill in full and they'd issue a credit on his next statement.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 5:22PM
Overdraft interest on tobacco products is the new killing it.
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 7:32PM
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/15/quadrillion.dollar.glitch/
'In a statement, Visa said the rogue charges affected "fewer than 13,000 prepaid transactions" and resulted from a "temporary programming error at Visa Debit Processing Services ... [which] caused some transactions to be inaccurately posted to a small number of Visa prepaid accounts."
The company assured customers that the problem has been fixed and that all falsely issued fees have been voided. "Erroneous postings have been removed ... this incident had no financial impact on Visa prepaid cardholders."'
Posted by guest , Jul 15, 2009 9:19PM
Forget the cigarettes, the purchase didn't cause the problem, but a programing error that affect thousands of other prepaid debit cards. Wonder if it was some outsourced foreign S/W engineer that caused the problem?