Florida woman goes to ATM to withdraw $20 to discover she has $1 billion in her account
Largo Florida - In a strange surprise, a largo woman Julia Yonkowski ,was surprised while withdrawing only $20 from an ATM that she became a billionaire after she found a $1billion dollars in her bank account and says she's struggling to return the money to her rightful owner.
Julia Yonkowski discovered the serious mistake after deciding to check her balance last Saturday to find that she had $9,999,998,555,594 in her current account. According WFLA reported .
That made her ranked 615th among America's richest, although she says she's desperately trying to give up the title as soon as possible and return the money to its owners.
Yonkowski has reached out to the local bank, but so far no one has answered her calls.
Yonkowski’s receipt showing her account balance. WFLA |
" Oh my God, I was really freaked out. I know most people think I won the lottery but I freaked out when I put in the $20 the machine came back and said we'd give you $20 but that's going to cause an overdraft and you'll be charged and I said oh just forget it ". Yonkowski said .
And she continued, "Only when I decided to check the balance, I was alerted to the sum of the nine numbers."
"I know I've read stories about people who took money and then had to pay it back and I wouldn't do it anyway because it's not my money it kind of scares me because I know the cyber threats," Yonkowski added.
It is not clear what is the cause of the malfunction Which made Yunkowski a billionaire The bank has not yet commented on the error and Yunkowski hopes to remove the money from her account as soon as possible.
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