How would you pay a $23 quadrillion bill?

Posted on July 15, 2009
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Josh Muszynski, a New Hampshire man was shocked to look at his online debit card statement and see a bill for $23 quadrillion ($23,148,855,308,184,500 to be precise). He contacted the Manchester gas station where he had used his card, to buy a pack of cigrattes and pay for fuel. They had no idea on what to do to help him. He then spoke to Bank of America which had issued the credit card and it took that bank about 2 hours to sort things out and reverse the charges. The bank still does not know how this could have happened.

For a moment, Josh says he was beginning to think that generations of Muszynski’s will be under debt trying to repay $23 quadrillion dollars. Just for reference, a quadrillion is more than a trillion and a lot more than a billion.

These humongous mistakes can be obviously caught when you check your statements. I wonder how many times the financial institutions make small amount mistakes that never get caught? Pretty scary!

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