A Hungarian guy went from earning a measly 238 euros ($260) to a mind-blowing 92,549 euros ($102,137) because of a currency conversion blunder. Turns out he had an Austrian bank account, but the company made a huge mistake when coverting the salary from furints to euros and ending up sending him 367 times the original amount.
Now the company is demanding for him to give back the difference, but he's standing his ground and is refusing to do so.
From Oddity Central:
Soon after realizing the mistake, the Hungarian company contacted its former employee and asked him to return the money that had been accidentally wired to his bank account. However, the man said that he did not have access to the Austrian bank account anymore, so he couldn’t wire them the money back. Only that obviously wasn’t the end of it, and a subsequent police investigation found that the man had extracted some 15,500 euros in cash from his Austrian account through an ATM in southern Hungary and transferred it to another bank account.
With the help of the Kaposvár District Prosecutor’s Office, the company managed to freeze the Austrian bank account of the accused and arranged for the money to be transferred back to its own bank account. According to Hvg.hu, it has recovered around 72,000 euros so far, but hopes to eventually receive the full amount wired to its former employee.
As for the accused, he has been charged with unlawful appropriation and risks a huge fine.
If this guy was clever, he would've just taken the money and run.
But he got a bit too crafty, trying to have his cake and eat it too. Now he's paying the legal price.
Greed sure does blind our reason!
