Man charged 23 quadrillion dollars for smokes

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - July 15, 2009

Josh Muszynski checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number - a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).

Muszynski says he spent two hours on the phone with Bank of America trying to sort out the string of numbers and the $15 overdraft fee.

The bank corrected the error the next day.

Bank of America said only the card issuer, Visa, could answer questions. Visa, in turn, referred questions to the bank.

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