my lucky bastid brother
Years ago my brother opened a business type bank account with a well known high steet name and he placed a reasonable sum of money (couple of hundred pounds) into the account in order to keep it open. He had an idea for a side business connected to the work he did for another company but nothing ever came of it and the account was forgotten in the mists of time.

Many moons later (or about 4 years in real terms) he got a phone call from his bank regarding his account, the wanted to speak to him about it for some reason. Suddenly remembering, he thought that a couple of hundered quid could be quite useful as things were getting a bit tight that particular month, the bank probably wanted him to close it down due to the fact he hadn't done anything with it.

An appointment was made for an advisor to see him the following week and he went along happy in the knowledge he might be £200 up. What he actually got was a lot better.

A banking error meant that money had been deposited into his account on a regular basis by a company with a very similar banking number..... just one digit different. the bank had traced their error and had already removed the extra funds out of my brothers account and back into the rightful owners. They basically informed him of what had happened and 'rewarded' him to the tune of £1500.....He promptly closed the account and left with £1700 + a bit of interest!!

This sounds a bit far fetched I know but I still have the newspaper clippings to prove this!
(jidler changed his name on, Sun 17 Sep 2006, 18:28, Reply)