Arkansas woman wakes up to find $4 trillion in her bank account
Submitted Photo / Molly Layes of Fort Smith received an email Tuesday saying her BancorpSouth account had more than $4 trillion. The glitch was corrected, and she spent none of the money.
A Fort Smith woman woke up Tuesday to a $4 trillion surprise in her bank account.
BancorpSouth’s computer system issued an inaccurate “system display” that made Molly Layes’ checking account appear to have $4,040,404,040,404.04.
“I guess I thought either it’s my lucky day, or somebody is going to be in a lot of trouble,” Layes said. “Then I realized how large of an amount it was and figured it was just a big error on their part. But it was nice to know that for just a little bit I was a trillionare, sort of.”
Layes, who has been a BancorpSouth customer for three years, said she notified her local branch on Rogers Avenue and the mistake was corrected.
“BancorpSouth online banking customers’ deposit account balances reflected overstated balance totals for a short period of time this morning before being corrected,” a BancorpSouth statement, issued through Saundra Lockhart, vice president of marketing at the Rogers Branch, said Tuesday. “This was a system display issue and did not reflect the actual account balance available to those customers.”
BancorpSouth Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered in Tupelo, Miss. According to its most recent quarterly report, the bank has $13.2 billion in assets and operates 292 locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas, with an insurance location in Illinois.
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Submitted Photo / Molly Layes of Fort Smith received an email Tuesday saying her BancorpSouth account had more than $4 trillion. The glitch was corrected, and she spent none of the money.
A Fort Smith woman woke up Tuesday to a $4 trillion surprise in her bank account.
BancorpSouth’s computer system issued an inaccurate “system display” that made Molly Layes’ checking account appear to have $4,040,404,040,404.04.
“I guess I thought either it’s my lucky day, or somebody is going to be in a lot of trouble,” Layes said. “Then I realized how large of an amount it was and figured it was just a big error on their part. But it was nice to know that for just a little bit I was a trillionare, sort of.”
Layes, who has been a BancorpSouth customer for three years, said she notified her local branch on Rogers Avenue and the mistake was corrected.
“BancorpSouth online banking customers’ deposit account balances reflected overstated balance totals for a short period of time this morning before being corrected,” a BancorpSouth statement, issued through Saundra Lockhart, vice president of marketing at the Rogers Branch, said Tuesday. “This was a system display issue and did not reflect the actual account balance available to those customers.”
BancorpSouth Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered in Tupelo, Miss. According to its most recent quarterly report, the bank has $13.2 billion in assets and operates 292 locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas, with an insurance location in Illinois.
Source http://swtimes.com/news/bank-glitch-enters-4-trillion-fort-smith-account
