If the Bank accidently gave you 10 Million $

After seeing this news story I thought I´d pose the question.

Police in New Zealand are searching for a couple who disappeared after a banking blunder deposited NZ$10m (£3.9m, US$6m) in their account. The couple had applied for a NZ$10,000 overdraft but received NZ$10m in their business account instead, part of which they withdrew, local media report. They are said to have run a service station in Rotorua, North Island. Police believe the couple have left the country and Interpol has been alerted for assistance.

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On a different note, are there any financial experts here who know how to get away with this, ie how to withdraw vast amounts of money in a short period of time.

running about withdrawing money from bank machines would be rather stressful and unproductive seeing as you have a limit of 2,000€ I think. (over here)

Send it to a swiss bank and get a new I.D. maybe?

I think the bank deserves all it gets for making stupid blunders like that.

They're happy enough to hammer you with fees when you make a "blunder" so **** 'em. I say this couple did the right thing.

I'd inform them of their mistake and give it back...though the option of gambling it all (or at least some) and hoping for a bigger win, so I could give the 10 mil back and keep the rest (or at least my winnings)...? Intriguing. If I had Boy-Kirk testes I'd give that a shot.

Inform them of it and give it back, there must be something illegal about spending it or keeping it.

But the gambling thing does sound hilarious.

"10,000,000...ALL ON BLACK! Let it ride baby!"

Had I been dirt poor I'd'a withdrawn it all and said good bye to the world for about 5 years when the heat dies down.

I'd live in seclusion for that long and live somewhere in like rural Mongolia. I'd get a completely new identity. From a name change to getting plastic surgery to rearranging my vocal cords and all that.

And even when i come out i'd still be quiet about it. And if anybody notices anything i'd lie and say i won it in Vegas and just leave it at that. And if anyone starts to get a little too curious i'd disappear from that region and move to another part of the planet like southern Argentina by the mountains and live a completely selfish and hedonistic life till the day i die. But before that I'd donate any remaining cash to the closest poorest village there, then i'd take my leave of this world sometime in the 2050's or 60's.

But that's just me.

it is 100% illegal to take the money, even on bank error

so I'd give it back

if it was $10, or maybe even $100, I'd keep it and keep mum, but 10 mil, like the article said, they have interpol on them now.

I'd give it back.

buy a LOT of superglue with part of it. use the superglue to create a 30 foot penis out of the rest of the money, lease a tank and with it as the base, ram the penis in the bank buildings upper floor, effectively penetrating it.

leave it there for the news reporters to report....................

Before getting into the ethics of it, keeping it is pretty stupid as the amouint of hassle involved in evading authorities to keep the money makes the money not worth it.

Ethically, of course, it is totally wrong, and if you justify it with "it's a bank" then you've gone past the moral event horizon. Stealing is stealing regardless of the victim.

And in any case, of course, the bank will just recoup any losses with various ways of getting monwy from customers, be that higher rates on loans or lower rates on savings. So in fact you just hurt everyone else by such things.

Not a matter of millions of course, but I was overpaid by a factor of 10 once by my local council (who managed to add an extra zero onto the number of hours I had worked that month, which would have made it phsycially impossible to do). What's worse is that it seems they would never have noticed a damn thing if I hadn't told them. Some thanks would have been nice but oh well.

^dicks, nest time, keep the money

Wow a lot of sensible people here. 🙂

I'd just give it back and hope for a nice reward.

All governments love money much more than your life.
They see it as the highest of crimes.

It would be easier to commit murder and either evade the police or get a light sentence than to take money.

Originally posted by The Scribe
I'd just give it back and hope for a nice reward.

All governments love money much more than your life.
They see it as the highest of crimes.

It would be easier to commit murder and either evade the police or get a light sentence than to take money.

Yes, but not due to them looking harder. Truth is if you killed a guy and tried to sell his body to various people you'd have just as much trouble avoiding the law.

alternately, id hire an army of hookers, gay/straight/transvestive, then hire huge trucks, and drive em to texas, and let em loose!

I'd convert it all into pennies, then give it back.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I'd convert it all into pennies, then give it back.

Originally posted by jaden101
I think the bank deserves all it gets for making stupid blunders like that.

They're happy enough to hammer you with fees when you make a "blunder" so **** 'em. I say this couple did the right thing.

I'd like to agree with you, but as others have said it's illegal and probably highly unlikely that you'd get away with it indefinitly in this day and age.

Having said that, there should be laws limiting bank fees and they should lend money at their own risk.

Originally posted by The Scribe
I'd just give it back and hope for a nice reward.

All governments love money much more than your life.
They see it as the highest of crimes.

It would be easier to commit murder and either evade the police or get a light sentence than to take money.

Sadly, you are correct.

a bank in the us with ten million?