What would you do with a trillion bucks?
That’s the question Texas resident Reggie Theus faced on Wednesday when
he checked his bank account and found that his balance was well over $4
trillion.
Unfortunately,
the balance, which would have made Theus the world’s first
trillionaire, was a mistake, according to local news station KLTV.
“I was definitely surprised when I looked in my account and saw that much money in there,” Theus told KLTV.
Though Theus won’t get to keep the cash, he told KLTV that he would have used it to help pay off the national debt.
Oddly
enough, Molly Layes, of Fort Smith, Ariz., noticed a similar mistake on
her BankCorp South statement earlier this week, according to 5 News
Online.
BankCorp
South communications executive Randy Burchfield confirmed to The
Huffington Post that its online banking system had been experiencing
some technical glitches.
“BancorpSouth
online banking customers’ deposit account balances reflected overstated
balance totals for a short period of time Wednesday morning before
being corrected,” Burchfield wrote in an email.
Banking
errors like these are not unheard of. Daily Finance points out that an
Indian man, Parijat Saha, discovered $9.8 billion in his bank account,
which was the result of a glitch.
Read more: Huffington post
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