rjequalsmj
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http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/12/09/bank-deposit-error-in-your-favor-give-it-back/
Take Randy and Melissa Marie Pratt, whose perceived windfall turned into jail time, when they took an erroneous bank deposit and ran. Melissa made a bank deposit to FNB Bank in the summer of 2008 of $1,772.50, but the bank read the check as $177,250. When the central Pennsylvania couple saw the difference in their bank balance, they wrote checks to another account, quit their jobs, bought a new vehicle and moved to Orlando, Fla. They were in the process of buying a house before the bank deposit mistake was traced.
In 2000, Susan R. Madakor received bank deposits of $701,998. Foreign governments were trying to contribute to a United Nations environmental program account that was one digit off from Madakor's Chase Manhattan Bank account. Madakor, from Brooklyn, claimed she believed she won an international lottery and had spent about $250,000 to invest in a laundry business, set up a college fund for her son, pay off credit card debt, and lease a minivan before Chase realized the bank deposit error and froze the account. Madakor's request to a State Supreme Court judge that the assets be unfrozen was denied. She was later convicted of bank larceny and bank fraud, sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay restitution to Chase.
obviously Wells Fargo doesn't subscribe to the "finders keepers, losers weepers" banking policy. i'll check to see if it's in bank of america's terms and conditions
Last year $1200 bucks mysteriously showed up in my account and I called Wells Fargo and was like as much as I would love to have this extra 12 hunge I don't think it's mine. Can you tell me what's up with that, and the person was like no it's a counter deposit so we can't figure it out for several days. So I had 1200 bucks in my account that I told them wasnt mine and they did nothing. Turns out when my roommate went to turn deposit the rent for our landlord the teller put it in my account instead. Figured it out like 2 days later when our land lady called us bitching about where the rent was.