Easy way to fast cash?

German dime - Less value than a dime
United States
January 29, 2007 1:52pm CST
When I lived in Germany there was a true story about a bank employee who stole a couple of pfennigs (less than one cent) from thousands of bank accounts, He did this every week. Before long he had amassed and spent a small fortune but eventually he made a small slip and was caught. Not one of the account holders ever even noticed such a small amount being taken from their accounts. Would you have noticed if it had been your bank account???
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@Eskimo (2315)
29 Jan 07
I probably would not have noticed, I read about a computer programmer who worked in a bank, and now that computers are doing the calculations, to many decimal places, he just rounded the figures to the nearest number and diverted the remainder to a bank account, as the amounts involved were less than 1p (quite often 0.1p) then no one lost out, but he became quite rich, think of the number of bank transactions, he was eventually caught out, although I can't remember how.
• United States
29 Jan 07
I think we may be talking about the same guy. Thanks
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• Nigeria
29 Jan 07
Its very hard to notice this especially where you think it is bank charges. You must be stingy to notice such an amount. But yet it is still theft anyway
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
29 Jan 07
Yes I think I would lol as I normally know what is in the account Was it really worth it for him to do that lol Well I suppose it was till he got caught lol
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
29 Jan 07
yup I would for I dont have that much in the bank so I have to keep track of it
@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
29 Jan 07
No, I wouldn't have. I've heard things like this before and for some reason, they seem always to slip up at some point and get caught. Or do they? Are there people out there amassing a fortune in our pennies that we don't even know about? Could never prove it by me. I couldn't perfectly balance my checking account if my life depended on it. As long as I come close and don't bounce, it's okay. Hey, maybe that's how they slipped up, they bounced somebody's account for a cent and the person got steamed and demanded a recount!
• India
29 Jan 07
na never such incident happened with my bank account .. coz i use to check my accounts detail very carefully