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welcome back to the david adventure couple interesting stories for the one
is about a man from new zealand named weed out who has been dubbed the
accidental millionaire what happened is that
there was a bank error which accidentally transferred uh... millions
of dollars into his bank account he applied for a hundred thousand dollar
overdraft to open the a dot to keep the doors open at its peak a gas station and
instead westpac bank mistakenly transferred ten million dollars uh...
rebelled will rather ten million which a quirk equates to eight point two million
u_s_ dollars into his bank account because of a decimal point air so
basically he took that money
transferred it out and fled to china thinking that this is my opportunity
i've got all this money
turns out he's gonna be spending five years in jail he got carl lewis and it
didn't work out that while form
so had three of the details on now and how we can card
it's not totally clear to me he had an accomplice is thirty two year old
girlfriend carava ring whose goals are going to serve nine months
in-home detention according to new zealand harold for that's they work
together to get the money out the question is would you give the money
back if there was a similar banking air i mean it's like monopoly banker error
in your favor ra collect whatever i mean there that's basically what we're
talking about here
what would you do
uh...
i don't know i'd probably just give it back because i mean it chances are
you're gonna get busted the question is what the amount of the issue is that the
amount goes up
the odds of getting caught go up so like for example if ten thousand dollars
appeared in my bank account i would say it was an over the course of my life
these ten thousand dollars are not really going to be the make-or-break
difference for me and the fact that if i do use the money don't say anything get
caught whatever
by could be punished at it's not work that and that call up
of course as the amount of money goes up once you get into money that is that his
life changing you say to yourself well if i didn't get caught we're talking
about life changing money here but of course the punishment potential goes out
and risk and reward are directly correlated here aren't that ready
someone told me that if it's over one point five million
that's the cut-off
now i think the guy i don't understand why don't you want that means that if
it's above one point five million you would try to keep it
perfect above one point five million you would be too scared and you would give
it back out and understand what the cut-off is i wish i knew at the guy that
there's a company that certainly the cut-out i'm not sure what we're coming
up
what about for you i mean how would you die would you handle this
well i i think that the higher the amount of money
though the more likely you are to get busted so he it also i think the times
what country ran right if that happens when you're spending two months
somewhere else
and you think
let me get the money out and go back to the u_s_ and then you know i'm gonna
play down here uh... maybe that's one thing on the other hand maybe it would
be a bad idea here in a country like new zealand ur or or the u_s_ where you have
a
that perception that
the banking systems were regulated more likely you'll get caught maybe that
change is what you do i don't know mentioned certain countries might have
provision where this does happen by accident
depending on the amount of money i mean it's like it's just it sure is something
like that that's another thing
can you really get this guy crew took the money and changed countries so it's
very obvious he knew what was going on but what if you just kind of don't do
anything here
and you start spending some of the money slowly but they need only draw attention
to yourself maybe that makes it more likely that they're not bc