The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money

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  • @Kokurorokuko
    @Kokurorokuko Жыл бұрын

    Honestly, I thought it would end differently. Provided he had to use ATM every night transferring more and more money, I thought it would end with him being in debt for a lot of money.

  • @MiguelAngel-fw4sk

    @MiguelAngel-fw4sk

    Жыл бұрын

    I mean the video says he had to pay $200.000 so I guess your prediction isn't wrong

  • @jordanlaquey5325

    @jordanlaquey5325

    Жыл бұрын

    All that he that he would need to do is save enough money in a different account to pay it off

  • @user-op8fg3ny3j

    @user-op8fg3ny3j

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jordanlaquey5325 the interest in savings account is almost nonexistent. He would be better to invest it somewhere else and he could have paid the bank back

  • @theneonbop

    @theneonbop

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MiguelAngel-fw4sk he had to pay $200,000 but earlier in the video it says he spent around 1.6 million

  • @sk61181

    @sk61181

    Жыл бұрын

    @@theneonbop That 200,000 must be a negotiated settlement his lawyers might have reached with the bank, says nothing about how much he paid the lawyers though!

  • @dendy0415
    @dendy0415 Жыл бұрын

    I need to go back a couple versions so I can preform this in my billionaire speedruns

  • @gmansplit

    @gmansplit

    Жыл бұрын

    perform*

  • @garystinnett8321

    @garystinnett8321

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gmansplit G Man is my nickname. I went to grammar nazi this. Still don't believe in Da Matrix??

  • @Marylandbrony

    @Marylandbrony

    Жыл бұрын

    On the other hand you will have to become Australian. Which is just Florida meeting Great Britain.

  • @gmansplit

    @gmansplit

    Жыл бұрын

    @@garystinnett8321 ???

  • @TrollGarlic

    @TrollGarlic

    Жыл бұрын

    I mean if you get lucky and get a billionaire father, could be easier

  • @patrickadu-amankwah1660
    @patrickadu-amankwah1660 Жыл бұрын

    He should made some investments in to rental property and paid off what he owed. Banks leverage our money all the time, he should have taken his opportunity like he did before when he found out

  • @The_Jzoli

    @The_Jzoli

    Жыл бұрын

    Or just keep gambling until you hit it big and can pay back the money with some to spare.

  • @dab_u7185

    @dab_u7185

    Жыл бұрын

    @@The_Jzoli that‘s not how gambling works.

  • @ChickenPizza

    @ChickenPizza

    Жыл бұрын

    @@The_Jzoli The house always wins. That's not a smart strategy.

  • @stevekru6518

    @stevekru6518

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ChickenPizza The house always wins in the long run, not necessarily in the short term. Therefore he can gamble increasingly large amounts until eventually he wins. This works for him because he has unlimited funds

  • @Chaosproscho

    @Chaosproscho

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ChickenPizza @dab_u the house only wins if the money you are spending is yours. If there is a virtually unlimited amount of money you can double down with, at some point you will get out with a plus.

  • @TuffBuffguy23
    @TuffBuffguy23 Жыл бұрын

    finally, a real life infinite money glitch!

  • @user-op8fg3ny3j

    @user-op8fg3ny3j

    Жыл бұрын

    Not quite infinite because he still has to pay it back. More like an infinite 24h loan

  • @chancellorasher9417

    @chancellorasher9417

    Жыл бұрын

    @@user-op8fg3ny3j it still is infinite as there are no limits. Yes he does need to pay the money he took couple days later but he can come back the very next day and take out a bigger cash. The money he’ll borrow will exponentially grow but he can take out as much as he wants (until he gets caught or the bank finds out) BUT THE BANK NEVER NOTICED THEREFORE THE WHOLE PROCESS IS INFINITE AND CAN USED BY OTHERS AS WELL.

  • @txe1nd

    @txe1nd

    Жыл бұрын

    Im 998 like

  • @AnthonyKeydel

    @AnthonyKeydel

    Жыл бұрын

    and it happened toa very deserving guy, seems like

  • @mick20075

    @mick20075

    4 ай бұрын

    Ever heard of banks 😂😂 we give them our money ffs

  • @biggiy
    @biggiy Жыл бұрын

    I can't imagine how much stress and anxiety built up while he was waiting for it to inevitably all come down around him. I think he turned himself in so that he could have a clean slate and rest well knowing that he didn't have to worry about getting found out

  • @smith22041

    @smith22041

    Жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of the guy who was sentenced to 13 years for a robbery, but was never taken there. He waited, supposedly even asked about going to prison (not sure who he asked) but they didn't notice until 13 years later, I guess when they went to let him out they found he wasn't anywhere on the inside. After a year in prison he was credited for time served for all 4,794 days from conviction to arrest. Because he was found to have turned his life around wife&kids&job etc, rehabilitated himself like prisons claim to be able to.

  • @LuxisAlukard
    @LuxisAlukard Жыл бұрын

    Similar story: Few years ago in Russia, bank send email to their client with pdf contract about credit card we have to print, sign,and mail back to them. He was not happy with "small font" (things like how much money he should pay every month and things like this) and he changed all numbers to 0, sign and sent contract, and bank verified it. And he started spending a lot of money, not carrying about debt or anything, because (according to him modifications to contract) - he didn't have to pay them anything and there was no limit to how much money he could spend. Bank realized their mistake of "not reading small font" only when they asked from him to pay his debt months later. I don't know how that ended.

  • @Capt_AwesomePants

    @Capt_AwesomePants

    Жыл бұрын

    I kinda remember hearing about that. If I recall, the bank tried to take him to court for fraud, but the court found in his favor, as he "negotiated" new terms with the bank, which then accepted those terms by issuing him an account. He didn't even have to pay back the money he had spent because he had written some such clause into the contract. The judge ruled that the bank couldn't force someone to do something that the bank wanted because the bank didn't read the terms and conditions of their own contract.

  • @circuit10

    @circuit10

    Жыл бұрын

    The phrase is “small print” usually if you wanted to know

  • @RamiSlicer

    @RamiSlicer

    Жыл бұрын

    @@circuit10 actually it's "fine print"

  • @circuit10

    @circuit10

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RamiSlicer Oh, I’ve definitely heard “small print” as well

  • @circuit10

    @circuit10

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RamiSlicer Google says “small print” is British so that makes sense because I am

  • @mittensfastpaw
    @mittensfastpaw Жыл бұрын

    That twist ending! I wouldn't have pressed for jail time personally but I wonder if anything like a book or movie deal would off-set that. If it did he's still good.

  • @kevinboros7427

    @kevinboros7427

    Жыл бұрын

    @Safwaan Even better: invest the money in stuff, like real estate or stocks; keep taking "loans" from the ATM until your investments reap huge benefits, then simply pay the bank back in full without anybody realizing a thing. Boom, you're rich and you didn't even work or risk anything for it.

  • @DANtheMANofSIPA

    @DANtheMANofSIPA

    Жыл бұрын

    No book or movie deal. Just a Half As Interesting video. So basically nothing

  • @ionic7777

    @ionic7777

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kevinboros7427 true but you would have to be skilled with stocks for it to work or have one of those people you pay some money to do it for you

  • @EebstertheGreat

    @EebstertheGreat

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kevinboros7427 High-yield investments also have proportionally high risk. It's just as likely if not more likely that his investments would fail and he would be out more money than he could withdraw from the ATMs. In the end, he got away with a lot anyway. He spent $1.6 million of the bank's money and only had to pay back $200,000. You would have to decide for yourself if a $1.4 million spending spree is worth a year in jail, but I think most people believe it is. And if he had kept his mouth shut, maybe he could have kept all of it (though by doing it this way, he doesn't have to look over his shoulder for the rest of his life).

  • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DANtheMANofSIPA No book or movie deal _yet._ I think we could get character actor Brad Pitt to portray him in a movie in the style of Catch Me If You Can.

  • @davidhingst7063
    @davidhingst7063 Жыл бұрын

    I used to do this in the early 80's. ATM's would go offline in the early evening while the books were balanced but the machine would still give you cash up to $300 without checking your balance. I would frequently "float" a bit of cash until I was paid the next day without a penalty. The secret was figuring out what time you could do this as the machines wouldn't tell you directly. I figured it out by always asking for my balance first. If the balance was unavailable that meant the ATM was operating in offline mode so it was time to "borrow" some cash. Different machines had different times to be offline and I had several I figured out the schedules on. That went on until the 90's.

  • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    Жыл бұрын

    Hello, this is the police - I mean, definitely not the police. I'm curious to know more details.

  • @CynicalDriver

    @CynicalDriver

    Жыл бұрын

    It honestly probably still works, except the window of opportunity is likely one to three minutes rather than hours, and probably only once a week unless it's a high volume ATM.

  • @Thermalions

    @Thermalions

    Жыл бұрын

    @@CynicalDriver It's not related to the ATM itself, rather it's the underlying bank's system not being able to confirm available funds to the ATM's request due to nightly processing/validation of the day's transactions. Having worked in the industry in the 80's/90's I had to deal with many customers who either exploited the situation to withdraw funds they knew they didn't have, and others who were confused/angry that the bank let then withdraw funds they didn't have in their account and then proceeded to charge them overdrawn fees and interest.

  • @brentandrew2419

    @brentandrew2419

    Жыл бұрын

    But presumably, you just got it in advance and had to pay it back when you could, correct? That's what the video is not explaining well at all... on the day he stops going, he owes back exactly as much as whatever he took last time...

  • @uxsshann

    @uxsshann

    Жыл бұрын

    @@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 LMAO

  • @Ashadow700
    @Ashadow700 Жыл бұрын

    I wonder how many more stories there are out there like this one, only we never heard about them because they ended with the bank, or whoever was losing money, simply saying "ok, we don't want this embarrassing incident to get out, so we will not press charges so long as you _don't talk_ "

  • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    Жыл бұрын

    Almost makes you wonder what conspiracy theories are true.

  • @boxinabox6608

    @boxinabox6608

    Жыл бұрын

    @@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 not flat Earth

  • @woosix7735

    @woosix7735

    Жыл бұрын

    Also corruption scandals with the bank’s employees that you don’t hear about

  • @alx2900

    @alx2900

    Жыл бұрын

    And eventually on their deathbed one day they tell the story to everyone...

  • @realityorfiction

    @realityorfiction

    Жыл бұрын

    Lol there are this one time when i got this sweepstakes looking check in the mail for like $300 15 years ago( with inflation it was worth more ), i went to the credit union to cash it.. they cashed it and they sent me a nasty letter a full week later, saying i owe the money(Yes, it took them that long, i had to pay it but they didn't press charges or anything, they were embarrassed since the check looked obviously fake. I didn't think they would cash it for me.

  • @bobin3113
    @bobin3113 Жыл бұрын

    So a loan without interest? It truly is magical

  • @DsYkX

    @DsYkX

    Жыл бұрын

    With a -1.4 million reduction in repayment amount!

  • @user-op8fg3ny3j

    @user-op8fg3ny3j

    Жыл бұрын

    Pretty much a one day loan, yeah. If he was smart he would have flipped that money so he could eventually pay back the bank and got away scot free

  • @whyareyouexisting7285

    @whyareyouexisting7285

    Жыл бұрын

    @@user-op8fg3ny3j flipped the money?

  • @johnopalko5223
    @johnopalko5223 Жыл бұрын

    So this was, in essence, the 21st century version of playing the float. For you young 'uns, playing the float was a technique that was used back in the Dark Ages to get short-term interest-free loans. It depended on the time it took to physically move checks between financial institutions. The float usually ran three or four days but, with judicious choice of banks, it could be as long as a week. When electronic check clearing became a thing (the 1980s?) the float ceased to exist, alas. DISCLAIMER: I can neither confirm nor deny that I was ever involved in such an enterprise. Besides, it was many statutes of limitations ago.

  • @ReatExists

    @ReatExists

    Жыл бұрын

    this comment suggests you were alive in the dark ages

  • @jjmoreland

    @jjmoreland

    Жыл бұрын

    In the States that was a thing until the early 2000s, the George W Bush administration made it that checks no longer needed to be physically handled to be processed. With the maturation of the internet it was possible to use images instead and reduced the processing time to a day or two depending on the institution.

  • @johnopalko5223

    @johnopalko5223

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jjmoreland Thanks for the clarification. I was unsure of the time frame.

  • @johnopalko5223

    @johnopalko5223

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ReatExists To people who are significantly younger than I, the 1970s might as well be the Dark Ages.

  • @althunder4269

    @althunder4269

    Жыл бұрын

    That's called cheque kiting.

  • @benjocaz45
    @benjocaz45 Жыл бұрын

    “Money. It’s like if BitCoin wasn’t a scam.” Sam’s (writer’s) most underrated quote of the year.

  • @rubiconnn

    @rubiconnn

    Жыл бұрын

    Jokes on you, they are both a scam.

  • @GrandProtectorDark

    @GrandProtectorDark

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rubiconnn nah

  • @crunchybones2528

    @crunchybones2528

    Жыл бұрын

    least informed take possible

  • @aminfozdar

    @aminfozdar

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, it’s actually not a scam...

  • @aminfozdar

    @aminfozdar

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah I agree

  • @EverClear0
    @EverClear0 Жыл бұрын

    It would probably have been best to think of that money as a no interest loan, invest it somewhere else in an account not affiliated with you. Then hopefully you could have paid back the $200,000 fine and had a vested asset making you money afterward.

  • @user-op8fg3ny3j

    @user-op8fg3ny3j

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly! Such a missed opportunity. You can tell a lot about a person by seeing if you gave them a large sum of cash and how smartly they use it

  • @Olivia-W

    @Olivia-W

    Жыл бұрын

    Ugh. Yes. This. He could have done this.

  • @fitmotheyap

    @fitmotheyap

    Жыл бұрын

    He had fun, that's what matters, not everyone needs to calculate every decision in life

  • @ThePeterDislikeShow

    @ThePeterDislikeShow

    Жыл бұрын

    Except they'll discover it. The only thing you can maybe do is buy gold and hide it somewhere. Unfortunately he did this in 2011, not the best time to buy gold.

  • @skywz
    @skywz Жыл бұрын

    He should have kept taking until he was billions of dollars in debt to the bank. As they say, when you owe a million, the bank owns you. When you owe a billion, you own the bank.

  • @maddeeps5520

    @maddeeps5520

    Жыл бұрын

    Local Australia man crashes central banks and entire world economy with infinite money glitch, bringing a new era of peace Definitely missed opportunity, dude might've had the entire world by the fucking balls and didn't capitalize on it

  • @robertb6889

    @robertb6889

    Жыл бұрын

    That’s only true I’d they expect you can pay any of that back.

  • @btnt5209

    @btnt5209

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, take a billion then escape to some out of the place country with a new identity

  • @renerpho

    @renerpho

    Жыл бұрын

    @@btnt5209 Yeah, a billion can buy you a small country, no problem.

  • @chancellorasher9417

    @chancellorasher9417

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly also this infinite money glitch can be done with different accounts as well. He could have done it with multiple accounts (tho it’ll most likely get a red flag).

  • @DudeNamedDrew
    @DudeNamedDrew Жыл бұрын

    I can’t believe the GTA V infinite money glitch was so good they made it in real life

  • @quuaaarrrk8056

    @quuaaarrrk8056

    Жыл бұрын

    Can't wait for some hoverbike to ruin everything

  • @teelo12000
    @teelo12000 Жыл бұрын

    New Zealand had something like this happen about 12 years ago. $6 million was stolen and transferred to China. The theives fled to Hong Kong and it took a couple years to get them extradited back to NZ.

  • @JoelReid
    @JoelReid Жыл бұрын

    His statement about not second guessing things and doing it the same is one of the most Australian things ever.

  • @20Justin1
    @20Justin1 Жыл бұрын

    Considering it's a bank/fraud I was expecting the worst for this guy. A year and $200k? That's almost nothing.

  • @fluffyjello

    @fluffyjello

    Жыл бұрын

    He lived the peak of his life, and he actually confessed. 1 year and 200k is reasonable. Still though, he probably could've went further with this and still get that amount of jail time.

  • @chancellorasher9417

    @chancellorasher9417

    Жыл бұрын

    Dude he coulda payed a bit more and never do jail time. Tbh I’ve seen much worse (white collar) crimes and the toughest sentence was a fuck ton of community service.

  • @chancellorasher9417

    @chancellorasher9417

    Жыл бұрын

    @@fluffyjello 1 year and 200k was a bit of punishment. Dude coulda payed $500k and some community service, I guess the guy wanted to see the inside of a jail.

  • @hedgehog3180

    @hedgehog3180

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chancellorasher9417 I think the point of his stunt was more so to bring attention to this security vulnerability in the bank. If he got convicted for a crime over it then it would have to be in the legal records and the bank would be forced to do something about it.

  • @hedgehog3180

    @hedgehog3180

    Жыл бұрын

    Not all countries have ridiculously long prison sentences like the US. In many countries getting prison time at all is rare, idk about Australia but for example in Denmark the max possible prison sentence is 16 years and that is only for the absolute worst.

  • @DsYkX
    @DsYkX Жыл бұрын

    The Spiffing Brit would be proud (But also responsible).

  • @DsYkX

    @DsYkX

    Жыл бұрын

    @ancient people 🅥 Explain to me the context of this comment and why it matters and I'll subscribe to fund your idiotic course. No? I see, bot.

  • @catdude485

    @catdude485

    Жыл бұрын

    @Томмуlnnit 🅥 sup fake innit

  • @user-op8fg3ny3j

    @user-op8fg3ny3j

    Жыл бұрын

    He would destroy the steam marketplace economy

  • @confushisushi

    @confushisushi

    Жыл бұрын

    The Australian Banking System is a perfectly balanced system with no exploits?

  • @DsYkX

    @DsYkX

    Жыл бұрын

    @@confushisushi exploits whatsoever

  • @marscaleb
    @marscaleb Жыл бұрын

    Honestly I'm impressed that the guy turned himself in, and even made a stink demanding to be arrested. Good on him.

  • @crazyt1483
    @crazyt1483 Жыл бұрын

    My question is genuinely at what point would this fail as I asume that there is some max transaction size

  • @user-op8fg3ny3j

    @user-op8fg3ny3j

    Жыл бұрын

    It caught up to him when he stopped taking more money out . I don’t think there is a cap because the banks don’t even keep that large amount in their vaults at any one time

  • @jimmaul

    @jimmaul

    Жыл бұрын

    @@user-op8fg3ny3j Eventually the machine has no more money in it right?

  • @Halosty45

    @Halosty45

    Жыл бұрын

    I think it fails when the atm(s) available run out of cash

  • @auxencefromont1989

    @auxencefromont1989

    Жыл бұрын

    a good guess would be about 4 294 967 297 billion dollars as an upper bound but something would probably happen sooner

  • @auxencefromont1989

    @auxencefromont1989

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chyza2012 it would probably go though, but i would guess it would trigger or crash something somewhere.

  • @therealdjflip
    @therealdjflip Жыл бұрын

    Back in the 90s, a similar thing was possible with a small Australian credit union on their regulat ATM cards (pre visa-debit), essentially if you had between 1c and 9c in your account, any transaction would approve via EFTPOS and yet, your account balance would never drop or go into the red, nor would the transactions show on a statements. Once they swapped to using Maestro and Cirrus, it no longer worked

  • @jonhall2274

    @jonhall2274

    Жыл бұрын

    Whaaat? Lol, I'm purposely getting to 1-9¢, the going on a Hella spending spree. Especially since there is no record of the transaction.

  • @danielbishop1863

    @danielbishop1863

    Жыл бұрын

    I've got an idea for being a small-time Australian bank robber. About 30 years ago, the country withdrew its 1c and 2c coins from circulation, inflation having made them worthless. So all cash transactions have to be rounded to the nearest 5c. But check or card payments still deduct the exact amount from your account. So, all you need to do to get free money is to write a 3-cent check to "cash" and take it to your bank. They'll have to give you 5c in cash, so you'll make 2c profit on the transaction. Repeat an absurdly large number of times until you can actually afford to buy something.

  • @southerncoyote
    @southerncoyote Жыл бұрын

    I would have went mad with power, lobbying governments to fix issues, investing in affordable housing projects, setting up charities to help the homeless, ya know, real super villain stuff

  • @Ranio_

    @Ranio_

    Жыл бұрын

    Ah yes socialism villan stuff

  • @AUsernameWeShallMarchToKiev

    @AUsernameWeShallMarchToKiev

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Ranio_ Nooooo Vladimir Lenin you can’t just nationalize all your industry and turn the USSR into a world superpower in 50 years!

  • @kaliningradtoczechrepublic8162

    @kaliningradtoczechrepublic8162

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Ranio_ those bad socialists want to give people affordable housing, so terrible

  • @KCFlyer2
    @KCFlyer2 Жыл бұрын

    This was happening in the 80's when I was running the ATM's for our bank. We had one customer who did something similar and would constantly show up as insufficient funds, even though he was given them money...because our ATM's were offline late at night. We would call, but he would never return our calls, so I manually went in and put a memo hold of a million dollars on his account. When he tried the stunt again, it didn't go thru, and when he checked his balance, the memo hold was reflected, showing him overdrawn by a million bucks. That time he called US instead of the other way around.

  • @Marvinzum

    @Marvinzum

    Жыл бұрын

    A memo hold is not a real transaction, right?

  • @KCFlyer2

    @KCFlyer2

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Marvinzum nope. it didn't cause any checks to bounce, although it did slow down the processing of his checks, which oddly, was a benefit to him. IT did get his attention though.

  • @ilostmymedic3818
    @ilostmymedic3818 Жыл бұрын

    I working in banking and can confirm that this still technically works...to and end. in order to not cancel out any stores, your card works offline. this is despite having no money, blocked your card, or anything. the only way to stop it is if the expiration date has passe + a few days as cards come with whats called a grace period, meaning your card still works a few days after expiring. here's the catch, ATMs (and Banks) are slow, but they log EVERYTHING. the time and date ATMs goes offline varies. some goes offline more often then others. and before you go trying this, most countries have a offline limit that is only nullified once card has gone through another online transaction (this also varies) the limit is often around 250$ a day, or 2500$ a month (30 days)

  • @peytondailey6108

    @peytondailey6108

    Жыл бұрын

    Does this work in say the United States. if so what time do i have to be up to exploit this money glitch?

  • @ilostmymedic3818

    @ilostmymedic3818

    Жыл бұрын

    @@peytondailey6108 I dont work in the states. but wouldnt suprise me. The states are quite far behind in banking. they normally do the maintenance somewhere between 1 and 5 AM. but when exactly is difficult to say. each ATM is maintained and installed by different banks, so it all depends.

  • @fltfathin

    @fltfathin

    Жыл бұрын

    in id they just stop working if offline lelz

  • @kaitlyn__L

    @kaitlyn__L

    Жыл бұрын

    I’ve found a number of cards in the UK refuse to validate offline transactions, while others allow it. Both kinds say Visa Debit so it must be a bank policy.

  • @BatCaveOz
    @BatCaveOz Жыл бұрын

    "Fueled by Vitamin-B" That is some next level Aussie slang!

  • @owgirl
    @owgirl Жыл бұрын

    Did you intentionally release this video between the hours of 1 AM and 3 AM Australian time? Because it’s nearly 3 AM where I am in Sydney.

  • @SOFTWAREMASTER

    @SOFTWAREMASTER

    Жыл бұрын

    Lmao.

  • @drakebalzer2098

    @drakebalzer2098

    Жыл бұрын

    LIkely so.

  • @CodyGissel

    @CodyGissel

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I don't even know why I'm awake but I'm watching this video at 3am

  • @VirtualR
    @VirtualR Жыл бұрын

    This was common in Australia, used to finish work and go to the 24h shopping centre and there was always one or two people waiting until "the bank closed". They said they were able to withdraw $50 for free most nights and it would be possible sometime between 1am and 3pm, once the bank went offline to stop customers from being blocked from withdrawals, they would apparently allow a $50 transaction during this time, that never got deducted from the customers account.

  • @_..-.._..-.._
    @_..-.._..-.._ Жыл бұрын

    When I was 12 (way back in 2000) I had a child savings account complete with a real debit card. One day I was showing off to my friends by getting money out like an adult. Then I saw the deposit envelopes and immediately made a “deposit” of $1000 and inserted an empty envelope. This allowed me to withdraw $100 which was the amount they gave you in trust of your deposit being legitimate. I spent the money on Pokémon cards and Chinese food for 4 of my friends and forgot all about it. About 1 month later the bank sent my parents a letter saying I defrauded them complete with atm camera snapshot of me. I tried to lie and say I didn’t do anything wrong, but my parents knew the truth. They paid the bank back and punished me for it. Later on in life, they told me they were in some way “proud” of me for outsmarting the bank, I did wrong, but they found it ingenious and wondered why a child savings account would even allow $100 to be withdrawn before a deposit was verified, now at 34 I feel the same. Who gives that kind of responsibility to a 12yo? My parents and the bank were just as much at fault, kids do dumb things lol.

  • @ThePeterDislikeShow

    @ThePeterDislikeShow

    Жыл бұрын

    I had a classmate who was a pathological gambler. He would dispute losses on his credit card and quickly gamble more, hoping to win back the money before the dispute got kicked back. His financial life was a mess, he was constantly on the phone disputing stuff and then he would swear to win it back before the dispute fell through.

  • @stephen3164
    @stephen3164 Жыл бұрын

    Ok, not half as interesting, back in the 80’s there was this computer game based on monopoly. If you were short on money, you could borrow from “the bank”, at a high interest rate, due in 2 or 3 turns. But if you borrowed a negative amount, the game allowed it. Your account balance would go negative for 2 or 3 turns but then you’d repay the negative loan and essentially collect interest on money you never had. By entering an obscenely large negative loan amount, you could earn $1M easily, in a game where the most expensive thing might be $800. Yeah, like I said, not “half as interesting” as the guy who floated money in real life, but I did wonder back then if computer programmers didn’t account for negative transactions, then if an actual bank (later available with online access) might accidentally allow you to take out a real loan for a negative dollar amount. Btw - the guy who was floating money daily at the ATM, how did he go on trips out of the country. 🤔

  • @Name-qj9ql

    @Name-qj9ql

    Жыл бұрын

    *private* jet, I assume they don't ask many questions when you pay

  • @3rdalbum

    @3rdalbum

    Жыл бұрын

    Probably gave his card to a confederate.

  • @stephen3164

    @stephen3164

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Name-qj9ql - are you insinuating that he took the ATM with him on the plane? 😮

  • @Name-qj9ql

    @Name-qj9ql

    Жыл бұрын

    @@stephen3164 hmm I guess you've found an inconsistency with this video, how did he leave the country if he had to take money out daily from a singular atm? I don't know. apologies, I thought you were asking a different question

  • @jiun88

    @jiun88

    Жыл бұрын

    I believe you’re talking about the game taipan?

  • @lylemeier2421
    @lylemeier2421 Жыл бұрын

    This is just the electronic equivalent of check kiting where you took advantage of the time issued to take to clear checks to run up balances.

  • @kalebbruwer
    @kalebbruwer Жыл бұрын

    I would hate to be the IT guy responsible for that bug... Then again, banks are technologically so far behind they probably don't have "git blame". So he's probably safe

  • @notsure5583

    @notsure5583

    Жыл бұрын

    This is actually by design. They have just failed to notice the fraud.

  • @sciemk8723

    @sciemk8723

    Жыл бұрын

    Allowing the atm to do transaction offline and then having a system to verify it later, means this was not a bug but a deliberate decision. Also this can only by an exploit if you do it everyday forever, once you stop the balance will account for all money taken out. I'm more curious about how an atm could make such huge transfers, there should be some limit, especially while offline, that was the main issue.

  • @kalebbruwer

    @kalebbruwer

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sciemk8723 They could at least have made a better detection system, set off some alarms when such transactions are detected.

  • @ihavetowait90daystochangem67
    @ihavetowait90daystochangem67 Жыл бұрын

    I think I have the proper authority to say *Let that man keep that money dammit*

  • @DavidKen878

    @DavidKen878

    Жыл бұрын

    Why?

  • @ooooneeee

    @ooooneeee

    Жыл бұрын

    He had to pay back a fraction only, so he did get to keep most of it.

  • @darkfool2000
    @darkfool2000 Жыл бұрын

    A smarter and less scrupulous man would have treated it as a no interest loan and invested the money to gain a profit and pay back the money he took in the process. The hardest problem there would be that just like a real bank you would run out of sensible investment strategies and start investing in subprime options.

  • @uninterestedcat8429
    @uninterestedcat8429 Жыл бұрын

    This dude is exactly the type of person who should have gotten that money 😆

  • @DavidKen878

    @DavidKen878

    Жыл бұрын

    Why?

  • @MrPlaneCrashers

    @MrPlaneCrashers

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@DavidKen878 If I had to guess, I'd say it's the guilt. He had a bunch of fun, but then realised life was more than that so he moved on, partly from guilt (I'm guessing, at least, from what the video is saying, not sure why he would have stopped otherwise). And then the cops didn't go after him for some reason. And then he went on a press tour, "asking" to be caught, and then he got caught and he has no regrets. This isn't the tale of Jeff Bezos using a pile of wealth to create a giant corporation that exploits its workers, this is just some dude having fun, doing random stuff, and helping his friends.

  • @zerotheliger

    @zerotheliger

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MrPlaneCrashers i dont get why people feel guilty from stealing money from banks lmao. thats what insurance is for. oh no rich people cant buy that yacht. maybe if people stole from corporations more instead from each others homes things would be better.

  • @Qreator06

    @Qreator06

    Жыл бұрын

    @@zerotheliger banks isn’t nice, ok but does that give you the justification to not be nice to them?

  • @RexOedipus.

    @RexOedipus.

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Qreator06 yes

  • @QuarioQuario54321
    @QuarioQuario54321 Жыл бұрын

    Imagine if one of the big banks ran out of money thanks to this

  • @2Links

    @2Links

    Жыл бұрын

    I think if it got that serious they would definitely notice.

  • @ClaviHaze

    @ClaviHaze

    Жыл бұрын

    That tells you the obscene amounts of money banks make. They didn't even realize this was happening until the guy's moral broke and told them

  • @QuarioQuario54321

    @QuarioQuario54321

    Жыл бұрын

    @@2Links like what if JP Morgan Chase had suddenly 99.5% of their assets gone and the 0.5% wasn’t enough to save them from bankruptcy. Or what if instead it made a country’s economy collapse?

  • @user-op8fg3ny3j

    @user-op8fg3ny3j

    Жыл бұрын

    @@QuarioQuario54321 you mean like another financial bubble? Oh, the government just uses our tax money to bail them out because they are “too big to fail”

  • @user-op8fg3ny3j

    @user-op8fg3ny3j

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ClaviHaze they can’t run out if the central bank keeps giving them more

  • @saulq08
    @saulq08 Жыл бұрын

    here before the scammers get here

  • @DsYkX

    @DsYkX

    Жыл бұрын

    @UCIFFBAFo8M_SNmj-TdHSU5A Cringe innit the bloody spammers are here advertising what is literally garbage for subscribers to be resold. (Or another reason)

  • @saulq08

    @saulq08

    Жыл бұрын

    here after the scammers got here 😔😔😔

  • @crazyraptor2907

    @crazyraptor2907

    Жыл бұрын

    @@saulq08 here after

  • @jkitty542
    @jkitty542 Жыл бұрын

    0:03 already a great video. Good job, Sam.

  • @stopsign606
    @stopsign606 Жыл бұрын

    This is the real life version of those "infinite money glitch" videos for video games

  • @johnathaneaglin9949
    @johnathaneaglin9949 Жыл бұрын

    I needed this today!

  • @hart-of-gold
    @hart-of-gold Жыл бұрын

    So many people saying he could have inverted yeah,yeah. In Australia, everything gained by fraud (with interest and returns) is taken before the fine, not as part of the fine. As he didn't gain many assets and threw most of the money to others almost randomly, that money was gone for the most part.

  • @jdmather5755
    @jdmather5755 Жыл бұрын

    Back in the 80s when they were switching to scanning bar codes for groceries many people did not trust the scanners so did their shopping at old fashion checkout. One national chain offered product for free if scanner charged incorrect price. Sale coupons for sales items starting on Sunday were printed in Saturday paper. Computer pricing was updated between 2-3AM Sunday morning. Go to 24hr shopping sometime between 12:01 and 1:30 AM. Purchase all sale items and checkout before 2AM. Don’t bother arguing with the night checker about incorrect prices scanned. Go to manager in the morning and show receipt showing date and incorrect pricing. Manager would send you around the store picking up duplicate cart of groceries for free. So in effect you got your groceries half price. Don’t abuse the mistake and draw undo attention. This worked for several months at several hundred dollars a pop until I guess enough people figured it out or abused the flaw forcing them to address the glitch.

  • @theintelligentcow7447
    @theintelligentcow7447 Жыл бұрын

    Idea for the next HAI video: What happens if I dip myself in hydrofluoric acid, and can I sue for worker’s comp?

  • @SirNerdTheThird5143

    @SirNerdTheThird5143

    Жыл бұрын

    And for those who don't know what Hydrofluoric acid is, and are too lazy to look it up, here is the Wikipedia definition for it: Hydrofluoric acid is a solution of hydrogen fluoride (HF) in water. Solutions of HF are colourless, acidic and highly corrosive. It is used to make most fluorine-containing compounds; examples include the commonly used pharmaceutical antidepressant medication fluoxetine (Prozac) and the material PTFE (Teflon). Elemental fluorine is produced from it. It is commonly used to etch glass and silicon wafers. When hydrofluoric acid comes into contact with human skin, it causes deep burns Edit: I copied and pasted the whole article. Yes, I am conveniently insane.

  • @theintelligentcow7447

    @theintelligentcow7447

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SirNerdTheThird5143 in short, forbidden vodka

  • @MinnesotaExpat

    @MinnesotaExpat

    Жыл бұрын

    Short answer, if you get the amount wrong, you're too dead to sue. Your family might be able to get something.

  • @YHK_YT
    @YHK_YT Жыл бұрын

    You should let Sam know about this, jetlag the game could definitely use this

  • @brentandrew2419
    @brentandrew2419 Жыл бұрын

    I don't really get this- presumably on the day he stops going to the ATM (and if he's going on trips to Bali that was quite frequent), he owes back exactly as much as he took the last time, correct? Meaning he gained nothing unless he did it every day without fail until the day he died. It's pointless if you eventually owe back 1.6 million. The video isn't explaining this part so well at all.

  • @thelight3112

    @thelight3112

    Жыл бұрын

    Imagine the things you could do with a gigantic $1.6M interest-free loan. Investments, real estate, start a business, etc. Plenty of ways to make another million once you have enough capital to start with.

  • @needfulthingsdesigns999
    @needfulthingsdesigns999 Жыл бұрын

    That was a very interesting video ( standing up and clapping) bravo Sam! I love to hear about money! I love making it and learning about it

  • @andrewconroy1266
    @andrewconroy1266 Жыл бұрын

    Funniest attempt at pronunciation of Wangarrata ever 🤣,but done with such confidence!

  • @WhyForWhatNow
    @WhyForWhatNow Жыл бұрын

    As an Australian, I approve your use of the word "grog" and well done on it's flawless use. I would like to commend and adopt "Vitamin B" That is genius 🤣

  • @HolowatyVlogs
    @HolowatyVlogs Жыл бұрын

    Exploiting a loophole should not be criminal. If a company or institution intends on doing something a certain way, they should codify it accordingly. Any lapse in that procedure cannot and should not be used as an argument for fraud.

  • @lopeo2324

    @lopeo2324

    Жыл бұрын

    He was technically having unlimited one day loans, he still had to pay the loan the next day with another loan, the problem is that he spent the money and then stopped doing it, basically owing the bank the money he spent. I believe that was the part that got him into trouble, not the loophole itself.

  • @catdogmousecheese

    @catdogmousecheese

    Жыл бұрын

    Using one loan to pay another loan is literally the definition of a Ponzi scheme and it is definitely illegal. Of course, white collar crimes have always been under prosecuted.

  • @DavidKen878

    @DavidKen878

    Жыл бұрын

    Exploiting a loophole to get money that isn’t yours should be criminal because loophole or not, its still stealing. Especially if you’re using that loophole with the sole intention of getting money that isn’t yours.

  • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    Жыл бұрын

    It's great that he confessed, because that made the bank have to clean up its mess.

  • @Thermalions

    @Thermalions

    Жыл бұрын

    The account terms and conditions agreed to when opening the account specifically covered scenarios such as this (just in a way that didn't clearly give step by step instructions on how to abuse the ATM system).

  • @bartjake
    @bartjake Жыл бұрын

    Loving the pronunciation of Wangaratta 😂 the Wang is supposed to sound more like how you say hang.

  • @childabuseOVER900000

    @childabuseOVER900000

    Жыл бұрын

    Second this: Wang (as in hang), ga (ha with a hard g), rat (as in the animal), ta (as in tar)

  • @lachiebathgate182
    @lachiebathgate182 Жыл бұрын

    as an Australian it is very important for you to know that it is pronounced wang·guh·ra·tuh (you need more nasellyness at the end, (or more bogan in your voice)

  • @alecmcgrathofcanada9175
    @alecmcgrathofcanada9175 Жыл бұрын

    I once found a vending machine that would spit your money back out right as it was dropping your drink.

  • @QuantumHistorian
    @QuantumHistorian Жыл бұрын

    Money at 3000 BC 0:05?? Definitions of money vary, but the most widespread one is that in was invented in Lydia ~600 BC with minted coins of standard weight and metal content. Anything before that was ad hoc bartering, although some goods were the de facto medium of exchange (commonly livestock, grain, or metal) they were completely fluid rather than being in fixed denominations.

  • @cf7571

    @cf7571

    Жыл бұрын

    "The most widespread one is..." citation needed. But more importantly: the idea that monetary economies emerged from barter has all available evidence speaking directly against it (see e.g. Humphrey 1985), and the standardised coin (e.g. à la Lydians) is far younger than our concept of "money".

  • @BatCaveOz

    @BatCaveOz

    Жыл бұрын

    Mesopotamian shekel

  • @RobinTheBot

    @RobinTheBot

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cf7571 Thanks, didn't want to bother with this.

  • @QuantumHistorian

    @QuantumHistorian

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cf7571 fair enough, money is complicated and there are lots of types whose nuances I don't all fully grasp. But in this context I meant something you can put in my hand and that I can unequivocally say "yep, that's money". When does that date from according to you?

  • @renerpho

    @renerpho

    Жыл бұрын

    @@QuantumHistorian The first time anyone could unequivocally say "yep, that's money" would have been around the 11th or 12th century, not long after the Normans conquered Britain. All three of those words existed in Middle English.

  • @hexmaniacwingy
    @hexmaniacwingy Жыл бұрын

    This is similar to check kiting, which isn't possible now because things update too quickly but could work pretty much the same back then

  • @mintydewdrops
    @mintydewdrops Жыл бұрын

    mans stole $18.6m and served only a year, petty theft can land someone here (in the us) for three. (still he do be an absolute based madlad tho)

  • @GetMeOutOfMyMisery
    @GetMeOutOfMyMisery Жыл бұрын

    Wheres this glitch when I need it

  • @subwaytoiletgaming762

    @subwaytoiletgaming762

    Жыл бұрын

    SHID NO THEY GOT HERE BEFORE ME

  • @skabyy
    @skabyy Жыл бұрын

    damn a real life gta hack

  • @4_youtube_is_dead

    @4_youtube_is_dead

    Жыл бұрын

    ha?

  • @Ankady
    @Ankady Жыл бұрын

    Really appreciate the video .I would like further demonstration on how to use actual tutorial in soft to make soft .

  • @30anvz28
    @30anvz28 Жыл бұрын

    I did this about 15 years ago in the middle of the night at a Bank of America ATM. It was offline or something wasn’t connecting and I was able to withdrawal my daily limit ($400) repeatedly. Well past my roughly $1000 balance. I stopped around $8-9k. They caught it eventually and my account went negative. Made an agreement and repaid it over time.

  • @megamihestia4049
    @megamihestia4049 Жыл бұрын

    What he should have done is invest that none-existence money into something like real estate, and then he would have the actually money to pay off the debt a few years later plus the real estate to earn money. It’s how rich people do it anyways. In that way it’s less like stealing money from bank, more like get a zero-interest loan from the bank.

  • @ShankarSivarajan
    @ShankarSivarajan Жыл бұрын

    He should have kept gambling. This is _the_ circumstance in which a martingale strategy would actually work.

  • @chancellorasher9417

    @chancellorasher9417

    Жыл бұрын

    At first it’ll sound like a good idea but over time it would be horrible. If you just keep gambling over time the house will win and over time doing the atm glitch the money he’ll borrow will grow exponentially until he can’t pay it back as the casino will always win in the long run. Best to do is invest in a business or asset that has a guaranteed return and is easy to liquidate for when and if you get caught. The glitch was literally a interest FREE NO LIMIT loan but the loan amount would be double every time you take money out. The only flaw with this is losing the money you’d need to pay back and be negative in your account.

  • @ShankarSivarajan

    @ShankarSivarajan

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chancellorasher9417 "the casino will always win in the long run." No. This is a good heuristic, but it is NOT true when you're an order of magnitude richer than the casino. (The bigger problem is the risk of the _casino_ quitting while it's ahead.)

  • @chancellorasher9417

    @chancellorasher9417

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ShankarSivarajan house will always wins let’s leave at that. Also why would you gamble when there are far better investments with much lower risks? Clearly my man is not business minded, you are getting ULIMITED RISK AND INTEREST FREE LOANS everyone’s dreams. Yet first thing you’d try and do is gamble, clearly not a very intelligent man.

  • @jimmyzhao2673
    @jimmyzhao2673 Жыл бұрын

    It's the Electronic version of 'Kiting'

  • @HappyfoxBiz
    @HappyfoxBiz Жыл бұрын

    *clears throat* it wasn't just NAB, it was ALL banks in Australia goes offline between 1-3am

  • @RiffRaffMama.

    @RiffRaffMama.

    Жыл бұрын

    Still do.

  • @rayden54
    @rayden54 Жыл бұрын

    I wonder how many other people figured this out and were smart enough to keep their mouths shut about it.

  • @Qreator06

    @Qreator06

    Жыл бұрын

    He wasn’t dumb, he was morally conflicted with his actions and decided he deserves punishment

  • @definitlynotbenlente7671

    @definitlynotbenlente7671

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Qreator06 i got screwed over by a bank once and have no sypathy for banks it was not that imoral stealing from them

  • @Qreator06

    @Qreator06

    Жыл бұрын

    @@definitlynotbenlente7671 I agree they are evil but does that justify stealing from them? an interesting moral question with no right answer. Well good luck on screwing over the banks while this capitalism thing is in full swing

  • @marcusianaviation9372
    @marcusianaviation9372 Жыл бұрын

    Now robbers know how to rob banks :’(

  • @imveryangryitsnotbutter
    @imveryangryitsnotbutter Жыл бұрын

    Damn, not 3 seconds in and already Adam is swinging for the fences

  • @ashwiren8458
    @ashwiren8458 Жыл бұрын

    This was a well known thing long before this, except it was only monday at 1-2am and the atm would only let you withdraw $50.

  • @v0rtexbeater
    @v0rtexbeater Жыл бұрын

    "Money, like if bitcoin wasn't a scam" The fed begs to differ

  • @wintryhard
    @wintryhard Жыл бұрын

    Honestly I probably would pay off debts first and than follow it up with either taking the funds and putting it into a trust that I could legally separate from myself and bury it under more legal loopholes. Make it as hard to touch as possible. Than buy some stuff I have always wanted and than put it somewhere the bank wouldn't be able to find it. Maybe on a piece of property that isn't under my name or another separate rabbit hole of trusts.

  • @renerpho

    @renerpho

    Жыл бұрын

    I seriously hope that's exactly what he's done. If that's the case then we would know nothing about it.

  • @hedgehog3180

    @hedgehog3180

    Жыл бұрын

    You could only pay off debts that weren't to the bank with this though and few people have debts to anything else. Like the debts people usually have are like house or car loans and they're all taken from the bank. I guess maybe in the US that's different but this is Australia.

  • @kanewilson8624
    @kanewilson862422 күн бұрын

    The thing was, there was no warrant for his “arrest” until AFTER he went through with the current affair story, and that was 3 years after he tried telling NAB what the problem was. And they reason why NAB wouldn’t go after him was because if everyone knew about the loophole in the system that gives out the cash all the people that use their bank would leave and their shares would plummet into nothing.

  • @ColonelCoffee
    @ColonelCoffee Жыл бұрын

    I honestly would have told the bank right away that I found a way to create money from nothing, and usually such institutions will have a bounty for finding these sorts of exploits. Considering how much money he could have stolen, I bet the bounty could be in the 5 digit range easily.

  • @jonhall2274

    @jonhall2274

    Жыл бұрын

    Or the better odds would be, thanks, here's nothing for your rewards. If the bank/company doesn't explicitly state a reward for something, you don't do that something. Especially for banks, considering they use our money in stocks & invest to make money for themselves. Make us pay money simply for someone to hold our money. (Some) have it where they take 1-5$ or a % just to withdrawal your own mkney, ect. So duck banks.

  • @Victor_Marius

    @Victor_Marius

    Жыл бұрын

    Jokes on you. The bank would tell you that you are confused and it is a loan and now you are in debt that you have to pay back. They will take money from you, not give you.

  • @SamTaylorsVersion
    @SamTaylorsVersion Жыл бұрын

    Infinite money glitch!!1!!11!!

  • @Jack-kz4nb
    @Jack-kz4nb Жыл бұрын

    Yeah I remember him being in seven news (Australian news) a few years ago

  • @enigmaticx326
    @enigmaticx326 Жыл бұрын

    I suspect this happens more often than people realise, but you never hear about it as easier for banks to write it off and just keep quiet about it.

  • @hedgehog3180

    @hedgehog3180

    Жыл бұрын

    On one hand I can see that on the other hand I'd imagine that banks surely would be fairly motivated to deal with this kinda thing.

  • @jiajianhou426
    @jiajianhou426 Жыл бұрын

    Someone finally avenged us for what the bank is doing to the public!

  • @user-op8fg3ny3j

    @user-op8fg3ny3j

    Жыл бұрын

    The banks never get punished

  • @maddeeps5520

    @maddeeps5520

    Жыл бұрын

    Bruh, this guy only took a couple million that's literally drops in the ocean compared to the amount of capital banks have access to

  • @hedgehog3180

    @hedgehog3180

    Жыл бұрын

    @@maddeeps5520 Baby steps.

  • @Denes2005
    @Denes2005 Жыл бұрын

    It’s time to test whether it still works

  • @donnatoataua7777

    @donnatoataua7777

    9 ай бұрын

    😅

  • @donnatoataua7777

    @donnatoataua7777

    9 ай бұрын

    I know using the fastcash option allows you to OD limit $200.May different ar different ATMs.

  • @johnl2727
    @johnl2727 Жыл бұрын

    I used to work for a large ATM manufacturer.. What you describe is a bank problem, not an ATM problem. The bank computer (ie, their software) tells the ATM what to spit out. Same thing with NCR and other brands.

  • @dkaloger5720
    @dkaloger5720 Жыл бұрын

    A real modern day bushranger

  • @ProfessorTenebrae
    @ProfessorTenebrae Жыл бұрын

    Why wouldn't he just buy shitloads of stocks? That seems incredibly short sighted.

  • @whut9245

    @whut9245

    Жыл бұрын

    Exchanges can be subpoenaed to have the stocks sold and the value recouped. The only ways he could have avoided it was by gambling and hoped he'd win big off the radar or investing it through someone else

  • @ProfessorTenebrae

    @ProfessorTenebrae

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@whut9245 That makes no sense. If he managed to make a profit off the stocks before they knew then they would never know. That's the thing. If he took out $50,000 and put it in a diversified stock portfolio, and then just repeatedly maintained that for a month or so, he could sell the stocks, replace the $50,000 back into the savings account, let the account transaction clear, and then pocket the profit. No-one would ever know. Rinse and repeat. Even if the stocks rose in value collectively by about 5%, that would be $2500 from nothing. And that could be increased by increasing the initial investment. Eventually, he wouldn't even need to use the bank trick anymore as he could just invest the profits from the earlier trades.

  • @ProfessorTenebrae

    @ProfessorTenebrae

    Жыл бұрын

    @@whut9245 Even if his end thought that he was going to get caught, he could've simply bought loads of gold or other valuable items and bury them somewhere. Get caught, serve time, then done. He's rich.

  • @theidioticbgilson1466

    @theidioticbgilson1466

    Жыл бұрын

    if you know nothing about investing and business, then it's more stupid than gambling

  • @ProfessorTenebrae

    @ProfessorTenebrae

    Жыл бұрын

    @@theidioticbgilson1466 Also wrong. That's why services and advisors exist. He can simply passive invest, such as using the FTSE 100, a good mix of industries for a safe bet, or an ETF such as VTI, where it's basically someone else doing the management of it. Yes it's a gamble, all stocks are. But they're still a safer bet than...actual gambling. He can also hire a stock broker to opt for safe investments. Usually the downside of a broker is you lose on your returns as you're paying someone else for the work but who cares, it's infinite money. And usually the downside of safe stocks such as government bonds, is low return, but again who cares, it's infinite money. Even a return of like $10,000 is still a pretty good net gain for no consequence. If the gamble doesn't pay off the result is the same anyway. He gets done for fraud. So what is there to lose?

  • @andrasfogarasi5014
    @andrasfogarasi5014 Жыл бұрын

    Clearly, his mistake here was that he didn't bankrupt the bank. If he had done so, there would've been no one left to discover that he did this.

  • @jesusjar11
    @jesusjar11 Жыл бұрын

    2:33 WHAT I USED TO PLAY WITH ONE OF THOSE

  • @ewanw5481
    @ewanw5481 Жыл бұрын

    people talking about him getting his free money, but no ones talking about how his sleep schedule would be so messed up

  • @benjaminholcomb9478
    @benjaminholcomb9478 Жыл бұрын

    To be fair, I'm pretty easy to trick between 1-3 am too.

  • @kirkl.collins4565
    @kirkl.collins4565 Жыл бұрын

    i dont think people know the opportunity they have right now. Crypto market and other markets are lower in price rather than increasing in price . Just buy the small shattered pieces that were left behind and sooner or later your portfolio value will increase

  • @RichardWKeys

    @RichardWKeys

    Жыл бұрын

    You said my mind, now is the best time to re-invest or invest if its your first time . we all know that it will eventually go backup, so why wait when you can make more money and quickly

  • @christopherberends8242

    @christopherberends8242

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RichardWKeys I am new in this crypto-market and i'm getting burn with all my hodlings . Few months ago i was waiting for the my hodlings esp bitcoin to hit new atm because i got in at their atm i was so secure that bitcoin will doing great i bought more. when i saw when bitcoin went down to $29k i almost folded from my chair, this is insane this crypto market give me so much stress i wish and i hope this bad dreams will end soon

  • @shariwilson9213

    @shariwilson9213

    Жыл бұрын

    @@christopherberends8242 Ouch you gambled blacked but got red . In order to make gains in this uncertain market you need an investmnt advisor who will help diversified your investmnt ( spreading the risk out by alot ) instead of gambling on the market . The market is beyond reading charts and prediction

  • @brandonr.navarro5896

    @brandonr.navarro5896

    Жыл бұрын

    @@shariwilson9213 I really appreciate your comment. i have been thinking of how i can place my portfolio advantageously, making good returns without accruing losses . Any tip on how i can get in touch with a reliable and trustworthy Advisor with less commission

  • @shariwilson9213

    @shariwilson9213

    Жыл бұрын

    @@brandonr.navarro5896 I follow the guidelines of Angela Mae Mcclain . you might have heard of her. i can correctly say she's worth her salt as an investment Advisor as her diversification skills are top notch . Since i employed her expertise my portfolio growth average is 20 to 30%

  • @jamvan1000
    @jamvan1000 Жыл бұрын

    The first sentence is gold

  • @tylerdurden639
    @tylerdurden639 Жыл бұрын

    When ATM's first came out, they did not take into account *_Available Balance._* At the ATM at my bank in 1985, I remember emptying the ATM (They held about $4,000 at the one I went to back then) when I only had $600 in my account. $500 at a time. "Just to see what would happen." The next morning I went into the bank and asked to see the manager and explained the error with their ATM. Then passed the money back to negate the transactions. The ATM was closed for about two weeks, but the "glitch" had been fixed.

  • @successfulusername
    @successfulusername Жыл бұрын

    That’s so dumb. Figure out to make sustainable cash off that. He kept putting himself in a worse situation and at the end he has nothing. If he could have put that 10k into starting or investing in local businesses, he would have only had to do that until those cash flows would generate more than the bank scam.

  • @Cacttux

    @Cacttux

    Жыл бұрын

    The guy had a fun time and doesn’t regret a thing. He seems happy, how’s that dumb?

  • @user-op8fg3ny3j

    @user-op8fg3ny3j

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Cacttux because he ended up with 200K in debt that he couldn’t repay so had to spend a year in prison? He could have had that fun time *permanently* if he spent that money wisely

  • @Olivia-W

    @Olivia-W

    Жыл бұрын

    Yep. Basically an easy start for all sorts of things. A few years and not only would the no interest loan be paid, he'd have assets, and no one would know. At age 90 he could confess or some such.

  • @cameronswansson4125
    @cameronswansson4125 Жыл бұрын

    Not quite how to pronounce Wangaratta

  • @maximosh
    @maximosh4 ай бұрын

    Fixed by a software update: Transfers should be available within 24hours.. and not immediately while ATMs are in the offline period.

  • @gopark123
    @gopark123 Жыл бұрын

    3AM INFINITE MONEY GLITCH (GONE WRONG) (COPS CALLED)

  • @ihavetowait90daystochangem67
    @ihavetowait90daystochangem67 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Pink Floyd for making Money

  • @lmilne2635

    @lmilne2635

    Жыл бұрын

    It's a hit

  • @saulq08

    @saulq08

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lmilne2635 it’s a gas

  • @flamingscar5263
    @flamingscar5263 Жыл бұрын

    Man, I wouldn't feel guilty in the slightest Maybe it's my "fuck the rich" coming out, but if I can rob the rick and get away with it that easily, I'm doing it

  • @baylinkdashyt
    @baylinkdashyt Жыл бұрын

    It was also the biggest top 40 hit in 7/4 time, in 1973.

  • @BHNative
    @BHNative Жыл бұрын

    The fact he was so nonchalant about the whole thing probably means he put some of that money aside to pay for any grievances. That's what I'd do too

  • @TikkaQrow
    @TikkaQrow Жыл бұрын

    Man, he coulda ran that a few years and made enough to buy enough stocks in the stock market to be able to live off the 3% or so in returns from stock. Stay frugal and keep going until you have a proper fire portfolio, let that portfolio mature a couple of years, and then let the transactions cancel, using savings from the fire account to pay off the spiral of debt and insert his family into generational super wealth. You know, that stage of wealth where no matter how much you spend, you make more money from dividends and interest. He coulda had a solid chance of absolving his guilt, and pay back the bank, and just be a rich guy all at once.

  • @zeymon1292
    @zeymon1292 Жыл бұрын

    That's like finding the Louvre in Paris unlocked at night and stealing some cups from the gift shop. He should've pulled the money out, invested it, made some cash with dividend and give the original sum back.

  • @nutbastard

    @nutbastard

    Жыл бұрын

    I wouldn't even invest it as that makes a paper trail. I'd just bury it somewhere, wait for the inevitable prison sentence, do the time, and then dig it up Shawshank style.

  • @Tha_Viktor
    @Tha_Viktor Жыл бұрын

    The king has retuned

  • @ClaudiniGod
    @ClaudiniGod Жыл бұрын

    I would totally spend a year in prison for $200,000 AUS, since I live in a 3rd world country I’d become millionaire!

  • @jpaugh64

    @jpaugh64

    Жыл бұрын

    You could look at that 1 year prison stay as equivalent (hour for hour) to four years and four months at a really sucky job. 365 days * 24 hours = 4.3 * (8 * 250) 1 year in prison = 4.3 years working 40 hours per week.

  • @ClaudiniGod

    @ClaudiniGod

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jpaugh64 which only makes it better since the normal week is 56 hours here…

  • @jpaugh64

    @jpaugh64

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ClaudiniGod In fairness, 50+ hours days is pretty normal here in the US, too!

  • @Jenkowelten
    @Jenkowelten Жыл бұрын

    Your pronunciation of Wangaratta is really painful

  • @sq1tl
    @sq1tl11 ай бұрын

    I was expecting the opening sentence to be “Money - it’s a gas, so grab that cash with both hands and make a stash”