Wages paid to wrong account......

t0rt0ise

Bailey101 wrote: »

It turns out that he had a bank account with Bank of Scotland a while back and ran up a ridiculous overdraft and loads of charges and it got so bad that he abandoned the account and opened a new one with RBS. When he gave his new job his account details he copied them off of the old BOS paying in book and not his new RBS one.

Oh my.. and he was still expecting the employer to repay him. No wonder he was so mad though.

Blackpool_Saver

What a pillock, I wouldn't pay him in washers

Sambucus_Nigra

Bailey101 wrote: »

Thanks everyone for all your advise and help, but I think it looks like he won't be needing it......

I spoke to his girlfriend last night and she told me what really happened and it wasn't just a simple mix up after all.

It turns out that he had a bank account with Bank of Scotland a while back and ran up a ridiculous overdraft and loads of charges and it got so bad that he abandoned the account and opened a new one with RBS. When he gave his new job his account details he copied them off of the old BOS paying in book and not his new RBS one.

He had no intentions of paying off the old account and now the wages have been swalled up with charges etc and he's got no hope of getting the money out of the account.

I'm sooooo p*ssed off that I wasted my time and other people's trying to help him :mad:

Thanks again for your help, and hopefully this thread has at least helped someone else who's genuinely having trouble.

Bailey xxx

Don't be peed off, just snigger to yourself. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

heretolearn_2

'I'm sooooo p*ssed off that I wasted my time and other people's trying to help him'
Don't worry about us, we've enjoyed the laugh! What a plonker. IF he gave his employer a hard time over this, I wonder if he'll be there long enough to get another pay packet?

jamesd

DVardysShadow wrote: »

So, if there is a simple system which could just stop money being transferred, it is indeed a problem which the banks could do something to assist with.

There is. Check digits. Many banks use them and there's a list by sort code that gives the rules for each.

There's also the IBAN+BIC system which has two built in check digits even for accounts that don't have them normally. The check digits are guaranteed to detect single digit errors or a single digit pair transposition error. You'll probably find this on your bank statements and online banking.