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Honestly you report that shit to the bank if you know what’s good for you, unless $100k is pocket change for you. If you go spending it, they will either get it back from you or you will go to jail for a number of years. Just about any court in the world will consider it the same as if you stole the money from the bank.

Just search and you’ll find numerous cases where that’s happened:
https://www.google.com/search?q=man+gets+million+in+bank+error

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You move it to a high interest bank account and don’t spend a penny. Wait until the bank contacts you asking for it back, you can then ask for proof documenting the error and that they require it back. This often takes quite a while. Once they’ve done it, return their money but you can keep the interest that was made on it.

It won’t be a lot of money, but every little helps.

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10 points

See if I can also win second prize in a beauty contest, then drive my iron to Vermont Avenue.

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This reminds me of Patrick Combs who deposited a fake junk mail check “for the joke” in 1995 and actually received the 95000$ in his personal bank account. The story of what happened after is actually really interesting. Here is a good video about it (it is in french but there is good subtitles in english, and a lot of the video is in english anyway). He manage to write a book about it, became some kind of national hero representing the honest simple man vs the big banks, and became a motivational speaker, telling the story of his war with the bank, all the intimidation, fears, etc.

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Check to make sure it’s not a scam (those scammers are getting crafty these days)

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