If your lifestyle is anything like mine, you get pretty close to changing your name and hiding out in South America if you’re even $10 overdrawn on your one extremely meagre bank account.
With that gut-wrenching terror in mind, imagine how Sydney man Calum Mawson felt when he went to catch an Uber but couldn’t because somehow his bank account was overdrawn to the tune of about two million buckeroos.
The club promoter paid $225 for what he thought was a $225 bill, but received a confirmation email thanking him for forking out a cool $2,250,623 (roughly the value of the cheapest, shittiest house you can buy in Sydney).
When he tried chasing it up, Telstra told him not to worry as the payment wouldn’t go through, but obviously it totally did.
They refunded him, but it took 3 whole days for the cash (that, in a way, he never had in the first place) to end up safely back in his account, which was a huge inconvenience, on account of how we need money to purchase goods and services.
Telstra has insisted that the error was on the user’s end, but Mawson reckons he only entered 3 digits – who are you gonna believe, the handsome honest bloke holding a beer in the picture, or those big wigs at Telstra.
Source: News.com.au.
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