An ATM distributed money to passers-by/edited by Yair Daniel
Richard Warnock, an independent contractor, and his 54-year-old wife Jacqueline, a kindergarten teacher by profession, thought they had "won the big prize" after a mistake at the bank cost them an amount of 11 million pounds (about NIS 50 million) in their investment account and shares The couple, who have been clients of the global investment company Aberdeen for five years, couldn't believe their eyes when they saw the huge sums.
On Wednesday morning (March 20), Richard's account was found to have £8.3m and Jacqueline's £2.5m "T. But it quickly became clear that it was a mistake. Richard, 56, told the "Daily Record": "For a few hours I thought it was real and I won the big prize!
It was like winning the lottery.
My pulse quickened when we saw the money, we already started thinking about how to spend it."
He said he thought that "maybe it's a mistake" until he noticed that his wife's account had also received a very handsome sum of money. The couple, who have two children, began to think that one of their investments Jumped to players overnight, as sometimes happens in the stock market.
Be millionaires for a few hours
Richard initially doubted the amount of money and thought that if it was a mistake it would be corrected immediately, but when his account balance remained the same for a few hours, he believed that he had indeed earned an unexpected amount of money overnight.
But the great joy turned into a jarring disappointment after they discovered that it was just a computer error.
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. Richard said: "When we realized there was a mistake, my heart sank. I was really disappointed. We still don't know how it really happened. The investment company itself She didn't contact us. Our investment advisor was the one who informed us of the mistake. I'm sure we weren't the only ones who thought we were millionaires for a few hours."
Later, they were forced to face reality when their bank accounts were revised to around £500,000.
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