MANCHESTER, N.H. – A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.
Josh Muszynski (Moo-SIN'-ski) checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number — a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).
Muszynski says he spent two hours on the phone with Bank of America trying to sort out the string of numbers and the $15 overdraft fee.
The bank corrected the error the next day.
Bank of America tells WMUR-TV only the card issuer, Visa, could answer questions. Visa, in turn, referred questions to the bank.
NH man charged 23 quadrillion dollars for smokes
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Re: NH man charged 23 quadrillion dollars for smokes
I'm guessing somehow the system (or someone) fucked up and charged his bank account his card number, not the actual price of the cigarettes?
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Re: NH man charged 23 quadrillion dollars for smokes
They were only off by about 16 digits. Watch some hacker figure out that the price he was charged is actually the guy's credit card number. Good luck cleaning that one up.