Everyone gets into a bit of debt at some point in their life. Sometimes this causes checks to bounce which can be a small wake up call that you need to do something. But imagine being told you owe $211,010,028,257,303.00. That is what what happened to a man called Joe Martins.
He decided to close his bank account, so he paid off the small debt he owed the bank, and got a big surprise when he opened the confirmation letter. Joe said “… I open up the letter and I look at it and I’m like, ‘No, you’ve got to be kidding me’. I didn’t know what to think. Obviously $211 trillion is a little above what I put in my bank account.â€
$211 trillion is a huge amount of money, around 80 times what Bill Gates earns in a year. The bank have blamed a word processing error and are sending Joe an apology. I think he made the right decision closing his account, don’t you?
