In what will come across as a rather unbelievable development, a lawyer has woken up one morning only to find 14million pound in her bank account.
Clare Wainwright
Clare Wainwright, a lawyer woke up yesterday morning to find herself £14 million richer and her mortgage paid off.
According to Daily Star UK, Clare Wainwright, from Sydney, Australia, said she was gobsmacked when she found the whopping sum in her account.
It all happened when in September Clare received a letter from the National Australia Bank (NAB) confirming a loan repayment direct debit she requested had been set up from her other account at St George Bank.
But the letter had a glaring error by stating her payments would be $25,102,107 (£14million) per month – not the $2,500 per month she’d planned on paying.
On October 25, the whole £14million payment actually left one of her accounts – leaving it massively overdrawn – and arrived in the other.
And despite her contacting the banks, the huge sum remains in her NAB account.
After the error, she joked on Facebook: “When NAB accidentally pays out your entire mortgage, and gives you an extra $24.5mil to redraw... do I skip the country??”
She later said she had not been tempted to splurge after seeing how rich she was.
“I’m a lawyer, which is why I haven’t spent the money,” she said.
“Mostly because I figured it wouldn’t play out that well trying to play dumb on that.”
Speaking about when she discovered the wonga, she said: “I saw it and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s 25 mil’ and I laughed.
“I showed my broker and he said, ‘Oh god, I’ll get them to fix it’.”
National Australia Bank reportedly told her broker they would be in touch to fix the problem within three days.