So when a bank makes mistakes like these, they force the kid to repay them. However when the banks "loose" peoples' money they get bailed out by government... :facepalm:

So when a bank makes a mistake like this, they force the kid to repay them. However when the banks "loose" peoples' money they get bailed by to government... Facepalm

if the gov made a mistake of giving you money why not let the person have it? like the gov needs it Cx

He should not have to pay it back... It's that fault that it happened. That's **** up if they do that to the kid.

If you give somebody that amount of money and don't actually tell them, of course they will spend it, how was he supposed to know? The bank should definitely be paying.

Nobody in there right mind would spend 30k as fast as they could unless they knew there wasn't much time to spend it. He knew it wasn't his and that eventually someone would be asking for it back. It's the kids fault. Make him pay at least some of the money back. Sell whatever he bought with the money.

The kid is a bit of a nut.

I would probably spend it all the same day haha.

**** that, id have withdrawn it all and payed important bills off, its the banks fault, all of these people posting saying they would have called the bank and asked why its there are chatting shit, get of your high horses people

If it was that sum of money I'd just hand it back to them. If it was 500,000+ I would withdraw every last penny and close my account, move abroad and deposit it all into a swiss bank account.