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"Cash pay cards" are basically prepaid debit cards that you can load with cash. You go to a store, give them, say, $50 and they give you a debit card with $50 on it. It's a safer way of sending someone money via snail mail or carrying cash without actually carrying cash.
 
Flux Capacitor said:
"Cash pay cards" are basically prepaid debit cards that you can load with cash. You go to a store, give them, say, $50 and they give you a debit card with $50 on it. It's a safer way of sending someone money via snail mail or carrying cash without actually carrying cash.
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Sooo... they're just like debit-cards?
 
Except that they don't access your bank account and contain a fixed amount, then yes.
 
Actually, re-reading that discription they sound more like gift-cards.

I wonder how one becomes "overdrawn" on such a system.
 
The slashdot article explains the likely cause of the error:

What is interesting is that the amount charged actually reveals the type of programming error that caused the problem. 23,148,855,308,184,500.00 * 100 (I'm guessing this is how the number is actually stored) is 2314885530818450000. Convert 2314885530818450000 to hexadecimal, and you end up with 20 20 20 20 20 20 12 50. Most C/C++ programmers see the error now ... hex 20 is a space. So spaces were stuffed into a field where binary zero should have been.
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So I guess an excuse of a post dated 23 quadrillion dollar check is out of the question by now? ;-)


How could the bank have not even noticed it. Shouldn't some kind of red flag or eye brow been raised when an account is overdrawn by any number higher than a million?
 
Tharpdevenport said:
So I guess an excuse of a post dated 23 quadrillion dollar check is out of the question by now? ;-)


How could the bank have not even noticed it. Shouldn't some kind of red flag or eye brow been raised when an account is overdrawn by any number higher than a million?
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Or higher than the GDP of the entire planet?!
 
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The funniest part is the $15 over-draft fee. He should have asked the gas station to give him a refund in cash. :lol:

Tharpdevenport said:
Weird, I just saw this news story today:

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=6913479

Lady said she could buy Disneyland if she wanted too.

Heck, I would be tempted to simply transfer that money overseas, pack my site as fast as I can, and get the fuck out Dodge. :D

Have sex with beautiful naked island girls until my dick doesn't work or I go blind, then die with a smile on my face.
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I wonder how the bank would have reacted had she tried to transfer or physically withdraw a few million. Could they have her up on charges, or would they have just tried to get the money back?
 
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