a client was owed $280. someone typed $81,000,000,000,000. two colleagues approved it. you are the clerk now.

a bank back office at night with a beige terminal
$280CAM AWAY0 zeros · closes in 0:30

add zeros while the camera looks away. send before 17:00. space = 0, enter = send.

incident printout

  1. apr 2024a citi client is owed $280.
  2. input$81,000,000,000,000 gets credited instead, between two internal citi ledger accounts.
  3. checksthe entry is approved by two people.
  4. +90 minsomeone finally spots it.
  5. +hoursreversed. the fed and the OCC get told.
  6. statement"our detective controls promptly identified the inputting error between two Citi ledger accounts and we reversed the entry."

source: Financial Times, 28 feb 2025, via yahoo finance. nobody kept a cent. meanwhile pump.fun prices dividend funds nobody was ever paid at $800M. the only dividend that actually landed was a typo.