$23,148,855,308,184,500 Cigarettes Charge

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When Josh Muszynski checked his bank account online, he didn't expect to find a $23 quadrillion debit.


Muszynski expected to see a couple hundred dollars in his account, but a 17-digit number that rivals even the national debt confronted him instead. The mistake alarmed Muszynski, who has downsized to an apartment in efforts to save money to buy a house.

"I thought my card had been compromised. I thought somebody had bought Europe with my credit card," Muszynski said. "It was very concerning."

What Did He Buy?

Muszynski swiped his debit card at a local Mobil gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes for a few bucks, Instead, his Bank of America account indicated he spent $23,148,855,308,184,500 at the gas station -- an amount for which he probably could have used to buy the entire company.

Muszynski may never know what went wrong. He also wondered what he would've done if he actually had money like that to spend.

If he had $23 quadrillion, Muszynski said he would give it all away, and maybe also bail out General Motors a few more times.
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How the hell did they manage that?!
 
Cashier: "Would you like to check the amount you're paying and type in your pin number?"
Josh: "Looks at screen for a split second* "Yep, that looks good to me." ............

I doubt the gas assistant would actually tell him to check the amount. But still,this is a whopper of a folly!
 
Hope they were good cigarettes. :p

What would I do with $23 quadrillion.... buy Britain out of debt maybe.... pffftt!! Haahahaaa!
 
What? Buy myself into this debt?! I don't think so. :lol:

I'd rather buy my own sunny country and rename it. :p

Wow, got Deja vu then. I'm sure we discussed having our own country last year... in the million thread.

I doo believe we were using moths as currency there too. :lol:
 
Awesome =)

If I could I would buy a couple island off Rio de Janeiro's coast.
There's this famous brazilian plastic surgeon who bought an island so he could treat celebs without any papparazi around.
 
That's not clever surgeon... not that you'd find a dumb surgeon... *scratches head*

Richard Branson ownes his own island too. Half of it has no doors or windows as the island has security around it.

God knows where I'd buy but it'd have to go for an island. Otherwise I might acidentally get ahead of myself and attack a neigbouring country! lol

Serves you right for LAUGHING at my currency!! :evil:
 
According to IMF statistics, that man has been billed an amount equivalent to roughly 380 times the world's GDP from last year.
 
And I nearly freaked earlier when I opened what I thought was my bank statement and it said I was about £13,000 overdrawn, then I realised it was a statement for what I still had to pay on my loan including interest. I can't understand how this guy did not have a heart attack.
 
I think that he more than likely immediately realised that there was something wrong here. Every credit card has a limit and I'm pretty sure they're all under 23 quadrillion :p
 
CitizenGeek said:
I think that he more than likely immediately realised that there was something wrong here. Every credit card has a limit and I'm pretty sure they're all under 23 quadrillion :p
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If it was not, it would be the worlds worst case of a bank extending someone's credit limit without telling them. Or of course he could have been sent Bill Gates new company card by mistake.
 
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