"When a cash machine began issuing customers with double the amount they had requested, the word spread like wildfire.
Within minutes, the first visitors had phoned their friends and family to tell them of the unexpected bonus.
Soon a queue had formed outside the Nationwide ATM at a BP petrol station in Stretford, Greater Manchester.
As the glitch had not occurred at a branch, it was not spotted for six hours. By then, as much as £10,000 extra had been taken out. "
Aren't these people guilty of theft? They knowingly and with forethought took more money than the bank thought they were getting. So I was shocked to learn that
"Customers could be ordered to pay it back but as the withdrawals will have been spread around several banks, that prospect is thought to be unlikely.
Nationwide may demand that the contractor blamed for wrongly filling the machine foots the bill instead. "
What has happened to this Country? Weren't we more honest in the past?
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