Incredible blunder! Bank mistakenly transfers $81 trillion, quietly retrieves it within 90 minutes!
Can you imagine your account balance skyrocketing to $81 trillion overnight? This is not a sci-fi drama, but a horrifying episode experienced by a user in the U.S. at a certain bank.
Originally, the account only had $280, but suddenly had an additional 14 zeros. Just 90 minutes later, this money mysteriously disappeared again. Initially, two employees were completely unaware until a third person noticed the anomaly and quickly retrieved it, narrowly avoiding an epic disaster.
But this is not the first time operations have gone awry:
In 2020, the bank mistakenly transferred nearly $900 million in loans, and some funds have yet to be recovered.
In 2022, a mistaken transaction triggered turmoil in the European market, enraging regulators.
Such errors occur frequently, exposing deep problems in the financial system:
In this era where data can be transferred in trillions within seconds, can banks really safeguard our money?
This time, the customer may not have become a billionaire, but we all need to ponder one question:
Is your deposit really safe?