$23 Quadrillion Charged on Visa Statements

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A technical glitch with Visa left many customers wondering how their great great great gandchildren's kids will pay off the $23 quadrillion debt.

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[dingumf]

LOL!

 

[hopiamani]

Does it apply towards rewards points?

 

[Upendra09]

[citation][nom]hopiamani[/nom]Does it apply towards rewards points?[/citation]

That was helarious

 

[Guest]

Epic fail of epic proportions? I'd demand that the other measly $5000 I owed be voided too...

 

[vorless]

"Vista Debit Processing"

No wonder they hard such a fail, they using Vista!

 

[mdillenbeck]

Timothy in the slashdot.org posting on this (they do seem to always be a few hours ahead of Tom's), stating:

23,148,855,308,184,500.00 * 100 (I'm guessing this is how the number is actually stored) is 2314885530818450000. Convert 2314885530818450000 to hexadecimal, and you end up with 20 20 20 20 20 20 12 50. Most C/C++ programmers see the error now ... hex 20 is a space. So spaces were stuffed into a field where binary zero should have been.

Thought I'd share that explanation, as it helped clarify for me what happened.

 

[computabug]

[citation][nom]MDillenbeck[/nom]Timothy in the slashdot.org posting on this (they do seem to always be a few hours ahead of Tom's), stating:Thought I'd share that explanation, as it helped clarify for me what happened.[/citation]
Genius programmers... I'm still taking baby steps with html >< by the time I graduate highschool I hope I'll have php and some java or c/c++.

Yes I think Tom leeches of other sites... I check OCC at lunch and they've got some cool news, then in the afternoon, Toms has the same news just paraphrased. And posted on a very buggy website.

 

[Hupiscratch]

If you convert this to mileage bonus, maybe you could go to another galaxy.

 

[okibrian]

Not the first time I seen this. I seen it happen a few months ago as well and it too was at a gas station. The guy filled his tank up and was charged millions or billions (I cannot remember which). He actually had to fight with visa over the phone about this. The dumb ass who took the call at visa really believed the system was correct. Anyway, they finally fixed it in the end.

 

[hairystuff]

I wonder if someone is creaming the interest off that error, if someone is then is it an error or something else more sinister.

 

[ssddx]

Didnt you know about the new diamond encrusted microsoft endorsed released by camel? I hear they are the new black.

 

[spanspace]

"temporary programming error at Visa Debit Processing Services which caused some transactions to be inaccurately posted to a small number of Visa prepaid accounts."

Lol great job with the quotes. Working with the industry I knwo first hand that it was most likely a new processor that made the error.

 

[apmyhr]

I love that VISA reassures us by saying he was one of "only" 13,000 people who were charged quadrillions of dollars. Makes you wonder how many people are falsely charged more moderate amounts and just don't notice it.

 

[Parrdacc]

I'm wondering what kind of purchases were listed for this charge. So far seems like gas and a pack of cigs. I can only imagine the conversations at home about why the new drapes the wife bought where so expensive

 

[neusiteexpets]

"I love that VISA reassures us by saying he was one of "only" 13,000 people who were charged quadrillions of dollars. Makes you wonder how many people are falsely charged more moderate amounts and just don't notice it."

Do you even think about how much transaction Visa do handles per second? If it were only of a small leak in their system, they would end up pilling gigantic sums of cash. It would suffice of only one customer starting to check a bit around and we could suddenly face the biggest fraud ever commit in history. Do you really think Visa would jerk with even a small sum while they make huge profit each years?

 

[boss95]

"the site did point out that the total (per charge) is about 2,007 times the size of the national debit."

I'm pretty sure you mean the national DEBT, unless we are talking debits and credits from accounting.

 

[Guest]

i just bought the world

 

[unlicensedhitman]

LOL I thought it said Vista...

 

[bin1127]

Does Visa make the mistake of crediting people with a quadrillion dollars?