£2000 Has been added to my account

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Pound wrote: »

I wonder what would happen if you accidentally transferred money into someone else's account? How much help would the bank give you to take the money back? I wouldn't be surprised if you was told there's nothing that could be done.

If it's BACS, AFAIK the payment can be recalled.

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Also, from reading a lot of Financial Ombudsman News !!!!!!!!, surely the woman in that story asdf1982 linked to should be given leeway by the bank? It's their error, and she made significant changes to her lifestyle as a result, they claimed the money was hers and so her position had changed - not, therefore, all that actionable. Or am I just talking sh*t?

Still fairly amused she spent a lot of the money in Ann Summers though. How many clockwork c*cks can one woman buy, or feasibly use, for christ's sake?

Actually, don't answer that.

Pound

Just because it's available to her in her bank account doesn't mean that it's her money. If she spents it, it's theft.

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Lee's spree began last November following a banking error at a branch of Abbey in Blackburn, the town's magistrates court was told. Over the following fortnight, Lee helped herself to £33,000, spending much of it at sex shop chains, Simply Pleasure and Ann Summers. Lee took a further £3,466 from cash machines as well as making three over-the- counter withdrawals of £500.

Woah! Thirty-three thousand in sex shops? That's all the funnier when you read the end bit...

'I walked into the bank and held my hands up and waited for the coppers,' said Lee yesterday. 'I was arrested and searched in the middle of Abbey. I felt totally humiliated.'

Not nearly as embarrased as you should be by having your sex shop bill published, my dear. And I still can't get over that thirty-three thousand - you could buy a lot of... interesting things with that. I wonder what they found in her pockets? :laugh:
Anyway, back to seriousness: she is a common thief like any other, she's just stolen in a different manner. She knew the money wasn't hers, but she took it anyway - just like you know the money in some old woman's purse isn't yours, so you don't take it.
In fact, I'd dare say she knew this was going to come back to get her - she was attempting to place funds through drafts. Ooh, I hope they get her for money laundering too.