Happened to me in 1995. Business account at Scotiabank in Forest Lawn.
They mistakenly put all of the Forest Lawn Safeway's take over the Labour day weekend into my Corporate account...$485K+/-.
Given that this was not "my" money but that of my corporation (there's a whole bunch of "legalese" added to such a situation) I called my lawyer on Tuesday for advice.
He told me that if I wanted it? Take it and run somewhere that I would not be subject to extradition.
He also advised that there would certainly be a significant amount of scrutiny when I showed up and tried to draw a half a million dollars out of an account that had never broken 100K as a standing balance...
As it turned out? They found their mistake overnight, and the next morning I pulled on my pants and went back to work.
True story.
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