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Interesting that mistakes like this tend to be in the big co's favor. You never read about 400 people getting a free home due to a bug.
by foobarian 8y ago
Interesting that mistakes like this tend to be in the big co's favor. You never read about 400 people getting a free home due to a bug.
- setquk 8y agoI saw a lot of people paid 20% more commission once due to a bug. They honoured the payments as well.
- 13of40 8y agoI think the right analogy would be that 400 people just barely avoided foreclosure because of a bug. It might have already happened and nobody heard about it because neither Wells Fargo nor the homeowners had any reason to publicize it. (Or neither were aware of it.)
- booleandilemma 8y agoI know someone who got extra money out of an ATM once. They kept it, which I’m not sure they would have done if it was a human teller, but it’s different when you’re dealing with a machine.
- hundt 8y agoI know someone that had the same thing happen. They tried to return it but the bank employee insisted it was impossible.
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- wmf 8y agoThere are stories about people who stopped paying their mortgage and got away with it because the mortgage had been resold several times and there wasn't clear paperwork about who owned it. But these may be urban legends.
- lisper 8y agoNope, it really happened: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/business/economy/25gret.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/business/economy/25gret.h...