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If your bank accidently transferred $10,000,000 into your account, would you take it and run or do the honest thing and return it?

Personally, I would hide it for as long as possible, claiming the interest, then return it when they caught up with me.

I'd give it back, but only because i'm too lazy / too much effort to give up current life till they find you Surely with passports etc they can trace anyone. Unless they swam with cases of cash

Would hope for a bonus though for the honesty

yea i reckon Karma would come around prettty quickly if you ran haha

tempting though...

ee904age wrote:If your bank accidently transferred $10,000,000 into your account, would you take it and run or do the honest thing and return it?

Personally, I would hide it for as long as possible, claiming the interest, then return it when they caught up with me.

Heard someone say that on the rock this morning. I'd honestly just own up straight away hoping for some sort of good reward

MR2BOY23 wrote:... I'd honestly just own up straight away hoping for some sort of good reward

knowing banks... you might get a promo pack with merchandise, free fees for a year and a frizbee!

Id give it back. They are gunna catch up with them one day and will pay for it (literally )

I find for those sorta things im too honest to try get away with it. Got my wof yesterday without paying because they forgot, but went back to pay when i realised.

leave it in the bank and let the interest gather (surely 10mill's gotta give back a few g's in interest) then let them have thier 10 mill back .

or if your from rotorua take some and run

ee904age wrote:If your bank accidently transferred $10,000,000 into your account, would you take it and run or do the honest thing and return it?

Personally, I would hide it for as long as possible, claiming the interest, then return it when they caught up with me.

aww man you had that idea already

they cant live here again thats for sure..

I'd give it back, it's not like you'd get away with it for too long before someone realises who you are, and you end up having to pay it back. Oh and i'd get a receipt, enlarge it laminate it and put it on the wall for s^@@@s and giggles

How the hell would they get the money though.

Like what, stroll up to a teller and say "Hey, I'd like to withdraw $10,000,000 please. In $20 notes".

If they transfered it to an off shore bank acc, the bank could pretty much reverse it, and chances are they wouldn't let them transfer that much anyway. Most places have a daily limit.

Sure, the money may be in your account, but when you try and withdraw it somehow, the bank is gonna stop and say "Waaaait a minute...."

I'd donate it to a heap of charities. Cause then I wouldn't benefit personally from it so they couldn't claim it back legally.

And the bank wouldn't want to claim it back from the charities for fear of a backlash.

Otherwise I'd run to a south american country and hideout with the money there.

I'm pretty sure there'd be some countries that wouldn't bat an eyelid if you transferred 10 mill into an account in their country and then withdrew it, or do it to multiple accounts, make it hard to trace. $10 mil would be chump change in some countries, especially since its only $10 mil NZ, so about $5 mil US

I'd send an email to someone overseas, telling them of mine and theirs good fortune, and if they can send me an account number I'll deposit the money overnight, minus some fees of course.
This is the perfect plan and cannot fail.

Dell'Orto wrote:I'd send an email to someone overseas, telling them of mine and theirs good fortune, and if they can send me an account number I'll deposit the money overnight, minus some fees of course.
This is the perfect plan and cannot fail.

oh lol
proven track record that plan

would give it back....sure it would be cool, but dont know how you can escape without a trace with $10mill in your account...and couldnt just drop my life haha

on another note....if it can be placed into the account electonically...cant the bank just reverse the transaction???

With 10 mil, you can afford an identity change

Yea I'd like to know how he got away with withdrawing 6mil? appaently if you have a business account like he had they dont blink twice at million dollar+ transactions they obviously are happening all the time

Thats how we do it in rotorua. BP owners huh

Id run... but then again I am a westpac customer

Apparently they in China some where... good luck finding them now, unless they slip up.

Id get in contact with the guy in the South Island whose in the run and get some tip's how to hide out from NZ Police

If they're in China, then Westpac are pretty much screwed.
Their government will just say "Not our problem, we don't care".