BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?

Subject: BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?
From: Emma B
Date: 21 May 09 - 09:26 PM

"It might be time to end our cynicism towards cheery slogans peddled by the world's commercial banks. A couple from New Zealand, for example, now have every reason to believe their local bank's motto: making the most of life.

The pair, named in media reports as Leo Gao and Cara Young, could hardly believe their luck when they checked their account at Westpac bank on 5 May, hoping to find their request for a NZ$10,900 (£4,000) overdraft had been accepted.

Instead, the bank had deposited 1,000 times that amount: NZ$10m, or around £4m. With so many borrowers around the world constantly being told "no" by their creditors, here, finally, was a bank that liked to say "yes"."

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 21 May 2009 20.44 BST

Last night the accidental millionaires from Rotorua, a tourist city on the north island overlooking, appropriately enough, the Bay of Plenty, are on an Interpol wanted list after fleeing with the bulk of their windfall two weeks ago.

Eat your hearts out Bonnie and Clyde!

Subject: RE: BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 21 May 09 - 09:29 PM

May they never be found, or at least not untill they've spent it all.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 22 May 09 - 03:06 AM

Cara's Mum is on telly right now, asking for her to come home.
Leo can stay but she just wants her girls back!
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 May 09 - 08:51 AM

Will they ever return?
No, they'll never return,
And their fate is still unlearned,
They will wander in clover
This whole world over,
They're the pair that never returned!

Many happy returns,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 May 09 - 08:55 AM

Well...they didn't take it all. Give them that much.

Subject: RE: BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 May 09 - 12:28 PM

Here's a recent link to this story: click here for article!

Evidently the couple only withdraw $2.3 million. Perhaps, they planned to withdraw the rest when they next stopped on GO.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?
From: Ythanside
Date: 22 May 09 - 12:38 PM

If you go with Bertolt Brecht's assertion that only small crooks rob banks while big crooks don't have to because they already own those establishments, you'll join me in hoping that the fugitive pair elude the posse for years, if not for ever.

(Being chickenshit scared of getting banged up in any jail for any reason, I'd have just moved the money to a short-term high interest account in another bank and been really really slow in refunding the capital when the error was discovered.)

Subject: RE: BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 23 May 09 - 11:12 AM

I find this hard to believe. what bank has $2.3 million in cash on the premises?

I used to help give folk concerts. If we wanted $2000 cash to pay a band, we needed to tell the bank ahead of time, so they'd have it. Never mind $2,000,000.
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Recently I read a book by a former FBI agent about bank robberies. One story told of two robbers who robbed a bank (it was an inside job) of a few million. A couple years later the pallet of cash was still in their apartment, just getting in the way.

You can't spend millions in cash. YOu can't go to a car dealer and buy a luxury car with it, you can't go into a realtor's and pay for a house with it. You can't take it on a plane and settle in a new country....

Cash is highly over-rated.

Subject: RE: BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 May 09 - 11:16 AM

Well, Leenia, I will gladly take any that is inconveniencing you at the moment. LOL
I did wonder how they mangaed to turn it into cash and carry it out,

Subject: RE: BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 23 May 09 - 05:52 PM

It wasn't cash - the bank accidently put a few extra 000s on the requested overdraft amount but didn't realize the mistake until about a week later.
$100,000NZ became $10million NZ!!!
Meanwhile, the couple must have seen it almost immediately because they started transferring it into another account.
They were already planning an overseas holiday - that's why they needed the overdraft, and they left a couple of days later.
I don't know if they managed to get all the money out of their account - probably not, but the bank has grabbed their house and business in Rotorua.
Two of the people involved have Asian names but the girlfriend seems to be a Kiwi and she has her 7year old daughter and a sister with her.
Here's a report from TVNZ

Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 24 May 09 - 11:16 AM

Sounds like a good deal to me. I'd swap my business and personal property for $10,000,00 pounds or even devalued dollars. Avec Plaisaire!

Subject: RE: BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 May 09 - 01:23 PM

Probably many people would see that error in their account and GO!

Subject: RE: BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 24 May 09 - 10:44 PM

Don't steal--bankers,lawyers and governments hate competition.

Subject: RE: BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 25 May 09 - 04:16 AM

Well, the sister has come home and been met at the airport by Police.
But the original couple are still somewhere in Asia.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Bank error in your favout collect £3.8m?
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 25 May 09 - 03:37 PM

that reminds me of an old joke..

a bank manager is interviewing three women for a position in his bank.

as a test he gives them the hypothetical question
"what would you do if your bank put $50,000 into your account by mistake"

the first woman said she would immediately notify the bank of their error

the second woman said she would not say anything but return it if the bank noticed it.

the third woman said she would invest the $50,000 and then return it and keep any money she made.

which one got the job?










the one with the biggest t*ts.