The man named Dan Saunders went to the ATM and
discovered a defect in it, and tried to transfer 200 Australian pounds, but the
machine gave him an error message that "the transaction was
canceled", but he tried to withdraw the money, and he got the cash he
needed.
At first he didn't think much of it, but later
that night he was walking home to the same ATM, tried again and ended up with
$1,300 in cash.
All the while, the ATM was giving a message
"transaction cancelled" and yet the money was coming out without
taking any money from his bank account, according to the newspaper "thesun".
Between 1 and 3 am, the ATM is separated from
the bank's network in Britain, and this allowed Dan to obtain unlimited money
by transferring between his accounts, and he continued to do this in the
following days and it turned into an addiction for him.
And Dan began spending this money on drinking
and eating in the best restaurants and holding wild parties every weekend, and
he spent about 1.6 million Australian pounds (more than 33 million pounds), and
he bought a 20-seater private jet for his companion at a value of 50 thousand
pounds..
And Dan used to parade with chaperones and
spend his life far away enjoying expensive suits and caviar and champagne and
once rented a minibus and stopped at all the motels in Melbourne to pick up
people, then drove them to a large and impressive property he rented in the
Yarra Valley where he hosted pool parties, and also paid some fees to his
friends and sent a classmate to study in France.
But he felt guilty in the end and decided to
call the bank to tell them what happened, and they told him that the police
would contact him about this, but they did not do so until he appeared on a
news program detailing his lifestyle.
However, it was three years before Dan was
arrested on 111 counts of fraud and theft. After his arrest, he spent a year
behind bars and went back to work at $13.50 an hour.
.Plus, he's also telling his story in a new podcast called The Glitch by Podshape, available on Spotify
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