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Citigroup Inc. erroneously credited 280 last April before reversing the transaction hours later, according to the Financial Times.
“Despite the fact that a payment of this size could not actually have been executed, our detective controls promptly identified the inputting error between two Citi ledger accounts and we reversed the entry,” a Citigroup spokesperson said in an emailed response. “Our preventative controls would have also stopped any funds leaving the bank.”
A total of 10 near misses of 1 billion were unusual across the US bank industry.

They fat fingered a payment a few years back sued the company and the judge said it was citi fault and they didn’t have to pay!

And now this! Haha

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280, 81T same difference.

When I was a kid I had something similar happen. I was a multimillionaire for about one minute.

The teller let me keep the passbook with the error in tact but ultimately corrected it in the account.

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Should've bought all the Bitcoin and run.

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26 sats \ 2 replies \ @Wumbo 28 Feb

I feel very confident they would of sued her an likely pressed criminal charges.

But hypothetically I wonder how much bitcoin you could of gotten off an exchange before reaching some daily threshold amount .

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That's why I said "and run".

If you owe the bank 81T, that's the bank's problem.

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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wumbo 28 Feb

"and run" reminded me of ocean eleven scene.

view on youtu.be
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The guy could have been in a real trouble had the money transferred in his account!

Was about to post it from FT Citigroup erroneously credited client account with $81tn in ‘near miss’.

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just zeros on screens...

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