Imagine opening your bank account for your stimulus check and seeing this instead...
One man in Indiana found a lot more in his account than just his coronavirus stimulus check...
According to a news report out of Indiana, a local volunteer firefighter saw quite a bit more in his account than he expected.
Per the news, he withdrew $200 from an ATM in order to pay his rent for the month.
Then, when he checked his remaining balance there was $8.2 million remaining his account:
As you can probably guess that is not a normal amount of money for a volunteer firefighter to have sitting in his checking account.
The man took the receipt to the clerk and asked if something was wrong with the ATM.
The clerk said there had been no reported issues.
The man then showed the balance to the clerk and said I think there is something wrong...
To which the clerk responded, "you have that much money in your account?"
The man said "No! I'm poor! I'm over here trying to get money out so I can pay my rent!"
A friend advised the man to call his local bank Monday morning to see what was up, and not to touch the money. However, the money was no longer there by the time he called the bank Monday morning.
$8 million showing up in people's bank accounts?
Interestingly enough, this wasn't the only person who mistakenly saw over $8 million in their account around the time the stimulus money was sent out...
A woman in central Florida saw a balance of $8.5 million in her account after she tried to withdraw some of her stimulus money earlier this week as well.
More about that incident can be seen here:
Not sure what is going on or why that is happening, but it is interesting that in both instances that same $8 million dollar number showed up around the time people were expecting their stimulus money.
What would you do if your bank account suddenly showed $8 million sitting in it?
Stay informed my friends.
-Doc
In what you will do if that happens to you?
Withdraw , Withdraw , Withdraw ........:)
This is how poor the programming is in the old banking system.
This is why we are moving to block-chain crypto-currencies.
The old system is just that bad.
In our bank, they still use DOS and Novell NetWare... When ATMs crash, one can see DOS Prompt but without a keyboard, it is impossible to see anything else or play with it.
It only takes one wrong key press and shitload of money can be transferred to wrong account.
Few years ago I was tempted to test what happens if I put negative number to field for amount to send, if the system would accept or reject it... One could also test with very large number, if it would cause overflow or wraparound.
Most of the big computer stuff is written in COBOL, and has never been upgraded to a modern language.
So, if you know COBOL you can still get work at the big banks.... and no where else.
I did never learn COBOL... I started with Z80 assembly and Basic, then moved to Turbo Pascal and after that TCL, Perl, Visual Basic and C/C++... I can also do some editing in Python, but I haven't really used it for long yet...
And hopefully, you will never have to.
For me, it is just the language de jour.
C was great when you needed the ability to access hardware code and stuff, but its too detailed for when you are dealing with megabytes of code.
And so, now we have Python, and ruby on rails, and
soon we will have another language that is more suited to the paradigm in the future.
Its all the same, just different ways to organize things.
Its all still comes down to decrement R1 and jump if zero.
I'm a full-time developer so I deal with gigabytes of code... Before I bought my current PC, it took two days to compile a single application... Now it takes just 4 hours to build all.
My current PC has 32 GB of RAM memory and 1 TB of flash memory on motherboard. It has extension board with another processor and 4 GB RAM for it.
Mine says "Available balance: 7,734,824.19"... Not quite 8 million, but close...