Moscow, July 17: An American man was charged more than $23 quadrillion for a pack of cigarettes that he bought at a filling station using his Visa card, a TV report said.
When he checked his online bank account, Josh Muszynski discovered that he was $23,148,855,308,184,500 in the red, the WMUR-TV said on Wednesday.
“I thought my card had been compromised. I thought somebody had bought Europe with my credit card,” he said.
Muszynski turned to the sales assistant at the store, but “she said she couldn’t help me at all. She didn’t know anything about it,” he explained.
He then telephoned the Bank of America to find out where the mysterious string of numbers on his account had come from. After two hours on the phone to the bank, a representative still had no explanation, but assured Muszynski that his statement would be corrected.
Later, the huge negative balance on his account was reversed back to normal.
–Agencies–