Title: A man walks into a bank Post by: mdosi on August 07, 2012, 06:05:43 AM This is a hilarious story of the banking systems and mistakes that can happen. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/93a47a62-daf0-11e1-8074-00144feab49a.html#axzz22pxGpxqE Title: Re: A man walks into a bank Post by: FreeMoney on August 07, 2012, 06:44:42 AM I read this before, there is a really long account of it somewhere. The date on the check in the picture is 1995 :o
Title: Re: A man walks into a bank Post by: unclemantis on August 07, 2012, 04:22:48 PM This is a hilarious story of the banking systems and mistakes that can happen. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/93a47a62-daf0-11e1-8074-00144feab49a.html#axzz22pxGpxqE Good read. I wonder if that can happen these days. I should try it. :-D Title: Re: A man walks into a bank Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on August 07, 2012, 04:39:43 PM This is a hilarious story of the banking systems and mistakes that can happen. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/93a47a62-daf0-11e1-8074-00144feab49a.html#axzz22pxGpxqE Good read. I wonder if that can happen these days. I should try it. :-D That would never happen if Bitcoin were the medium of exchange--or am I mistaken? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20207.0 Have a good day! ~Bruno~ Title: Re: A man walks into a bank Post by: Tril on August 07, 2012, 08:29:49 PM I'm unable to access the article on my phone without signing up for an ft.com account. Can someone provide the full title, as a little birdie said I can search for it on google news to read it?
Title: Re: A man walks into a bank Post by: fabrizziop on August 07, 2012, 09:23:06 PM I don't get the story. Did he return the 95k$?
Title: Re: A man walks into a bank Post by: wachtwoord on August 07, 2012, 09:40:44 PM Nope :)
Good on the company for sending out those annoying adverts. Last year in the Netherlands a lottery claiming people had won something (while this was a ruse to get them to play the lottery) was successfully sued and forced to pay out to the plaintiffs. |