How $325,000 was sent to wrong bank account after digit mistake

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'When the solicitor said the transfer of the settlement had gone through, that's when we started to panic a little bit because it meant it had definitely gone somewhere.' 9News

tradie and his wife Jennifer last month, when the couple sold their Bundaberg investment property to help fund the building of their "forever home" in a nearby suburb.

"She showed us the bank account number that she transferred the funds to and we saw it was wrong," Mr Larson said."At first we weren't too worried, as we thought the money would just bounce back. A spokesperson for Suncorp declined to comment to 9news.com.au about Suncorp's internal banking procedures.

"The bank would not tell me anything and when I spoke to PEXA they said it would be 6-8 weeks before they would get a report, and that does not necessarily mean my money back," he said. "It's important that a customer contacts their financial institution as soon as they are aware of a possible error to initiate this process as quickly as possible," he said in a statement.

 

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