Paid 10 months after leaving company

ffacoffipawb

A friend of mine was into stoozing about 15 years ago.

He requested a cash transfer on-line from his credit card to do this stoozing. No transfer arrived.

A few days later he rang them up. The girl apologised and said she would do this manually.

A few days after that, two identical transfers hit his bank account, but his credit card was only debited for one of them.

At the end of the interest free period he cleared the credit card balance.

However he still had the duplicated transfer in his bank account, and it was a five figure sum.

I last spoke to him a couple of years ago (so about 13 years after the event) and he still hadn't been asked to repay the money.

I presume he has got away with it - it was well over 6 years ago and the credit card company was taken over and no longer exists so probably no audit trail remains?

KatrinaWaves

ffacoffipawb said:

A friend of mine was into stoozing about 15 years ago.

He requested a cash transfer on-line from his credit card to do this stoozing. No transfer arrived.

A few days later he rang them up. The girl apologised and said she would do this manually.

A few days after that, two identical transfers hit his bank account, but his credit card was only debited for one of them.

At the end of the interest free period he cleared the credit card balance.

However he still had the duplicated transfer in his bank account, and it was a five figure sum.

I last spoke to him a couple of years ago (so about 13 years after the event) and he still hadn't been asked to repay the money.

I presume he has got away with it - it was well over 6 years ago and the credit card company was taken over and no longer exists so probably no audit trail remains?

Again, what a wonderful story, but what has it got to do with the OP where the mistake has been noticed and the money has been requested back? 

Dakta

" ...is a pathetic excuse for theft. Grow up." 
The above neatly sums it up. Though I suppose in this life we have rights, and technically one has the right to be a thief, in the same way as other stakeholders also hold rights that would allow them to operate in a way that treats you like one.

AskAsk

KatrinaWaves said:

dranzer01 said:

this has happened to me in mylifetime probably twice from memory - I dont recall paying it back....

Fantastic anecdote. This happened to me I think probably twice and both times I was made to walk the plank.

'walk the plank', is that a euphemism for being taken to court? 

KatrinaWaves

AskAsk said:

KatrinaWaves said:

dranzer01 said:

this has happened to me in mylifetime probably twice from memory - I dont recall paying it back....

Fantastic anecdote. This happened to me I think probably twice and both times I was made to walk the plank.

'walk the plank', is that a euphemism for being taken to court? 

No it’s from my pirate days when after a particularly hefty looting I was given my share of the dabloons twice but kept quiet because I am a terrible person (but a pretty good pirate...) 

ffacoffipawb

KatrinaWaves said:

ffacoffipawb said:

A friend of mine was into stoozing about 15 years ago.

He requested a cash transfer on-line from his credit card to do this stoozing. No transfer arrived.

A few days later he rang them up. The girl apologised and said she would do this manually.

A few days after that, two identical transfers hit his bank account, but his credit card was only debited for one of them.

At the end of the interest free period he cleared the credit card balance.

However he still had the duplicated transfer in his bank account, and it was a five figure sum.

I last spoke to him a couple of years ago (so about 13 years after the event) and he still hadn't been asked to repay the money.

I presume he has got away with it - it was well over 6 years ago and the credit card company was taken over and no longer exists so probably no audit trail remains?

Again, what a wonderful story, but what has it got to do with the OP where the mistake has been noticed and the money has been requested back? 

This is a case where my friend noticed the mistake and kept a wrongful credit and (appears to have) got away with it. 

Thenonameleague

p675 said:

Silvertabby said:

The money was paid in error and must be returned.  Think about it the other way - if your bank took £X from your account due to a 'glitch' would you just shrug your shoulders and say 'oh well, their money now' or would you expect them to pay it back?

Well if I accidentally bank transferred the money to the ex-employer, I wouldn't have a right to get it back, I believe. I'd just like to keep the money obviously, I didn't have a good experience with this employer at all and we could all do with a bit of extra cash.

Just wanted to know if anyone had dealt with this before as there isn't much easily googleable advice, as it's mostly to do with people still working at the company and refusing to pay back overpaid wages.

Not sure about you but its very obvious what you need to do, not sure I need to reiterate whats been said.
It was made in error, simple as.