
Ken Lewis has a plan to save Bank of America. Read on:
Josh Muszynski swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes. His bank account showed he spent over 23 quadrillion dollars.
He checked his account online a few hours later, expecting to see a couple hundred dollars — but the 17-digit number that rivals even the national debt confronted him.
Muszynski called Bank of America about the string of numbers and a $15 overdraft fee the bank tacked on to his mysterious debt. After two hours on the phone, Muszynski said, the representative on the line had no idea what to say, WMUR-TV reported.
Yes, Bank of America had debited his account for $23,148,855,308,184,500. Quadrillion is the one after trillion. And then, as if that were not insult enough, tacked on a $15 fee on top of it, as if to say, “Hey buddy, we’ll let this one slide, but try not making purchases of sixteen hundred times the national debt in the future”
Now, clearly, BoA had to remove that charge, but one wonders if Ken wanted to see black numbers on the balance sheet so badly that he picked a random account number out of a hat and had that guy charged an outrageous amount of money (plus fifteen bucks, because), on purpose. And hey, eventually they’re going to hit someone who doesn’t keep up with their account so well, and when they do, Ken Lewis is BACK, baby!


vitamin j // Jul 15, 2009 at 11:35 am
apparently this happened to a bunch of ppl:
http://consumerist.com/5314246/unruly-teen-charges-23-quadrillion-at-drugstore
Bill // Jul 15, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Office Space guy isn’t good with those decimal points.
RUSFAME // Jul 16, 2009 at 7:26 am
apparently it wasn’t BofA’s fault as it has happened to people in other banks as well, that was a problem with Visa software that caused the same effect to many people in the US
Jason // Jul 16, 2009 at 8:50 am
Jeez, you people and your “facts”
I have been sitting on that picture of Ken Lewis with the Dr. Evil pinky for months now, all I wanted was an excuse to use it.
Sofie // Jul 16, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Well, at least BoA is bolder than Citi, which just pesters you with constant phone calls for you to sign up their credit card protection program.