Hi, I'm Looking for a €250 Overdraft. No Probs here's €84million!
Updated : Dec 10, 2008
A careworker thought all her Christmases had come at once when her bank mistakenly extended her overdraft facility - to £84m.
20-year-old Kaylie Coomber, from Highnam, near Gloucester, said she had previously phoned her bank, Alliance and Leicester, asking them to extend her overdraft to £250 in the run up to Christmas.
When she received a letter in relation to the request for the extended overdraft, it confirmed that the bank had arranged an overdraft limit of £84,480,090.00 on her account.
Miss Coomber said that while she laughed when she got the letter, the bank did not find it quite so amusing.
"When I phoned the bank to tell them about it they didn't apologise or find it funny," she explained. "I am a bit disappointed I am not going to get my £84m overdraft."
A spokesman for Alliance and Leicester apologised for "any inconvenience or upset" caused to Miss Coomber and confirmed it was an "unfortunate" one-off incident. (Damn!!)
Very Happy Pig would have considered not ringing the bank to tell about their mistake!