Inspired by a conversation elsewhere, have you ever been the beneficiary of an error, or an event at a financial institution that left you with a profit?
I can start by going back to 1991. I had a BCCI credit card and I'd made a couple of large purchases in the month prior to them collapsing. I did receive a letter telling me that someone would be in touch for me to pay my balance but nobody ever did. Because it was such a large figure, I remember exactly how my much it was at the time. £4,767.25
I had the money and I kept it in a separate account for a few months but eventually decided that if they didn't want it, I'd keep it.
In 2018, I woke up one morning and there was a deposit of £1,904 in my Paypal account that I knew nothing about. I made every possible attempt I could to trace it with no success, even PayPal couldn't tell me anything about it (I posted a thread about it here. Two weeks later it vanished with literally no trace of it ever being there so I wasn't so lucky then.
Has anyone else had anything similar? Bank error, random deposit?
I can start by going back to 1991. I had a BCCI credit card and I'd made a couple of large purchases in the month prior to them collapsing. I did receive a letter telling me that someone would be in touch for me to pay my balance but nobody ever did. Because it was such a large figure, I remember exactly how my much it was at the time. £4,767.25
I had the money and I kept it in a separate account for a few months but eventually decided that if they didn't want it, I'd keep it.
In 2018, I woke up one morning and there was a deposit of £1,904 in my Paypal account that I knew nothing about. I made every possible attempt I could to trace it with no success, even PayPal couldn't tell me anything about it (I posted a thread about it here. Two weeks later it vanished with literally no trace of it ever being there so I wasn't so lucky then.
Has anyone else had anything similar? Bank error, random deposit?