Couple on the run after bank deposits $10 million by accident

[Sash]

With out doubt, they are in Bali.

Where else would you go?

The moon! Then nuke the bank from orbit.

 

[ticklemebougy]

It would be ironic if they had their credit card details phished and lost it all

 

[Deleted User 234324]

Funny how they get branded as thieves for spending money that isnt theirs, yet out MP's call it an honest mistake!

 

[Sash]

I wouldnt run i would just pretend i didnt know and buy some new stuff saying i was using my overdraft.

 

[arknor]

Funny how they get branded as thieves for spending money that isnt theirs, yet out MP's call it an honest mistake!

i dont see how they managed to get the money out without it beeing flagged as a suspect transaction.

surely the computers fraud algorythm should pick up massive ammounts of money moving or lots of little withdrawals from atm's etc

 

[p4radox]

Perhaps they'll fake their own deaths, John Darwin style.

 

[Sash]

Use the money on sex, drugs and rock and roll then drown themselves in champagne. Win.

 

[megakid]

10,000,000.00 NZD=3,869,281.43 GBP

So, assuming the time was less than ~20 years i'd do it, as that equates to a tax free prison salary of ~£200k/year.

You'd do 5+ years inside for 4m GBP? I might do a year at the most for that amount. Probably 2 years would be my maximum for *any* amount.

 

[Guest2]

They didnt steal it. They were given it by the bank as a gift!

 

[Paul11]

as mentioned


1) how the hell do you get that amount of money out of the bank,
if you transfer it to another bank, im sure they can trace it and recover it electronically


2) RUN FOREST, RUN... .would be nice to think of running but you would live the rest of your life looking over your shoulder waiting for the day they might catch up to you..

 

[kaiowas]

So do overdrafts work differently over there or was the mistake more than accidently putting in a few extra zeroes? Surely giving someone a 10k overdraft shouldn't result in transferring *any* money to them. If the bank mistakenly set the wrong overdraft limit and the couple then withdrew the money then it's more a case of the couple having a rather large unpaid debt rather than it being theft.

 

[Cosimo]

i dont see how they managed to get the money out without it beeing flagged as a suspect transaction.

 

[Jez]

You'd do 5+ years inside for 4m GBP? I might do a year at the most for that amount. Probably 2 years would be my maximum for *any* amount.

Yeah easily, assuming i had worked out a way to definately retrieve the money upon release..5 years equates to £800k/year tax free just for effectively being bored 24/7 for a while.

 

[kaiowas]

Yeah easily, assuming i had worked out a way to definately retrieve the money upon release..5 years equates to £800k/year tax free just for effectively being bored 24/7 for a while.

It's better than that, you get 5 years free board and lodgings in a 5* hotel with TVs, playstations and as many free training courses as you can do

 

[Jez]

 

[eXor]

I'd happily do a bit of time for NZ$10m.

..in Wormwood Scrubs?

 

[D18241]

You'd do 5+ years inside for 4m GBP? I might do a year at the most for that amount. Probably 2 years would be my maximum for *any* amount.

tbh 5 years i would do that no problem , 22 atm so be out by time i am 27 then be set up for rest of my life not having to work or nothing

 

[Guest2]

tbh 5 years i would do that no problem , 22 atm so be out by time i am 27 then be set up for rest of my life not having to work or nothing

Wouldnt you have to pay it back?

Thinking about it i dont think you do have to. I know someone who got done for fraud and did 6 years. He took the rap for a quite a few people at the time and now he has a fair bit of money somehow

 

[Basher]

Idiots. It's only a matter on time before they'll be caught.

 

[Basher]

... just for effectively being bored 24/7 for a while.

Bored and bummed.