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.
that was my fault, I’m still learning how to swipe debit cards.
-Ken L.
KL was going to make it rain at the Crazy Horse. (Only place to get Boone’s bottle service, obv)
Foiled again. Shitmotherfuckermotherfuckfuckshitpiss.
-KL
How dare he do that when he still has my money!
-MW
I wonder if they wud’ve waived the service fee right away if the purchase was boones farm
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.
I have got to try this.
-pandito
deficit. solved.
Wait, what’s the problem? It seems like a simple rounding error to me.
-B.Lo
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/
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.
The best part is that it took BoA 2 hours to realize that the guy did NOT actually spend $23 quadrillion on smokes.
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.
@6/13 does the government’s plan to solve all deficit problems also include double posting?
-curious in DC
@10: How weird is it that the amounts are identical? Are those the “Lost” numbers?
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.
Kenny calls this a “party foul.”
That’s 10 decimal places higher than my yearly drinking tab!
-Ken L.
My b, guys, my b.
-KL
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.
Incidentally, 23 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars still wouldn’t get you a pack of Marbies.
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
That be the new health care tax.
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.
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!
Simons (staring with an unrequited love at a pack of Reds): I…CAN’T…QUIT…YOU!!!!
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.
25% interest on $23 quadrillion is too high.
@25 FTW
that’s a lot of money.
We can buy China and all the newly minted whores there right now.
KL
@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.
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.
Overdraft interest on tobacco products is the new killing it.
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.”‘
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?