Woman finds $88billion in her bank account

Woman finds $88billion in her bank account, but can't even buy the weekend groceries


By ANNY SHAW


With $88billion in the bank, you'd have thought buying the weekend's groceries wouldn't have been a problem.
But when Stephanie Hickman's bank account was accidentally credited with the huge sum on Saturday morning, that's exactly what happened.
Instead of spending the money, the Hickmans decided to call SunTrustBank to report the error, but the bank told the Virginia couple it couldn't help them.

Despite talking to several bank employees, no one could tell Mrs Hickman how the problem occurred or how to reverse the transaction.
'My husband talked to three different people and they all told us they can't access the account and they can't fix the problem,' Mrs Hickman said.
'Everything's frozen, online banking, mobile banking,' she told NBC.
'I'm not saying that the $88 billion is my money, but the $150 at least that we had in the account was my money and now I can't even access that.'

Mrs Hickman's account was frozen until Monday, leaving the couple unable to access their own money over the weekend.
SunTrust is now trying to resolve the problem so that the couple can use the account again.
In the meantime, Mrs Hickman will have to rely on the loose change that may have fallen down the back of her sofa.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1262505/Woman-finds-88billion-bank-account-buy-weekend-groceries.html

You know, you would think they would say oh obviously someone has made a mistake but I understand you need your money, so we will free up that money so you can use it and buy some groceries..............................No....................the useless bastards do not have one empathic bone in their body and in the meantime the people have to rely on what is in or not in the cupboards or on other people's help.

You would think the bank would have said, well you did the right thing here by letting us know, because of that we are going to give you a little something.

For the banks in action.

It sounds to me like someone is trying to launder money this way and foreseeing that some innocent account holders might try to tap into those funds, so they freeze the account and then complicate the money trace until they divert it to where they originally intended for it to go. Sorry about the assumption but having worked many years in finance you regcognize the scams.

It's sad that she can't access her own funds though. Guarantee you when they finally unfreeze the account (when the funds are transferred out), she won't even get an apology from the bank.

Funny amount of money considering the Chinese are obsessed with 8.