That poor guy is in for a massive ball ache.
The exact same thing happened to me just before Christmas (not quite billions though). Some Scottish car company transfered 25 grand into my account by mistake and I basically got accused of massive fraud before the bank then said someone had tried to steal my identity. They are not my friend at the moment.
(Charmander, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:51, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

You should have trousered it.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:52, Reply)

In an ideal world maybe.
Apparently you should never be honest with banks, because they will fuck you. Who knew?
(Charmander, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:57, Reply)

Oh man, I would love that.
I'd refuse to give it back until they proved it wasn't mine.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:57, Reply)

If you spend it I'm not sure there's too much they can do about it?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:59, Reply)

yeah except the whole fraud thing mentioned up there you pleb

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:00, Reply)

They aint neva gonna give a mortgage neiva

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:01, Reply)

They had a receipt for it which proved it wasn't mine unfortunately.
I say unfortunately not because it meant I didn't end up with the money but because it shouldn't have meant a 2 week accidentally extended block on my account happened.
And the world is not awesome enough to just gift me loads of money like that :(
(Charmander, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:01, Reply)

That does suck, and every time you ring up about it
you talk to someone new and have to explain everything again.

The world should be that awesome dammit!
(PsychoChomp, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:05, Reply)