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Originally Posted by bizaro86
This happened to my sister as well when she was a kid. $100k+ deposited into her "young savers" type account. The fact that her $200 in birthday money was now six figures should probably have raised a flag somewhere. They ended up letting her keep the interest it earned while they figured it out, which was a few hundred dollars iirc.
I wonder if they've gotten better about this since computers. The case I'm mentioning was ~20-25 years ago.
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I've heard of similar stories that are a little more recent. Person didn't spend the money, but moved it to a savings account (or it was in a savings account?). The bank figured out the mistake and reversed the entry but didn't bother to reverse the interest.