I'd be on the first flight to Geneva or the Grand Caymans.

Good for him. I hope it enjoyed it. To hell with the Banks !!!

This guy should park his ass at a craps table in Vegas and walk away when either he doubles his money to 10M or loses it all. In the former case, he can pay the bank back and pocket the difference. In the latter case, he'll be broke and behind bars but he'll also be a folklore legend.

Andrew Jackson was right to label banks as the enemy of the people. Even in his lifetime usury rates were the norm.

The Commerce Bank? Not the Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills? Are you sure it wasn't Jethro D. Bodine?

I heard he spent the whole 2 million on scratch off lottery tickets trying to win the $50,000 top prize.

Sounds like a bank error to me. Course, the guy was an idiot who shouldn't have withdrawn anything. I knew a guy who had a bank error on his account which gave him $15,000 cause the teller put it in the wrong account. It was there for more than a week, and he asked the bank about it, they told him it was correct. He waited another week, and then went ahead and withdrew it. Two weeks after that they realized what happened and charged him. He got off, but only because he hadn't spent a dime of it, so could pay it back the day that they called him.

On the plus side, this guy just pumped two million dollars into the economy. Stimulus package!

"This isn't mine."

"Yes it is."

"No, it really isn't."

"It's yours. Take it. It's yours and you can do whatever you want with it."

"But..."

"No, we beg of you. Take these five million dollars because they're yours. [already dialing 911 to report the theft]"

sad.... do I need to be worried...??

Why did he withdraw only 2 millions? If he just wanted to try and see if it worked, he could have taken a single $20 bill from an ATM and confirm the balance. If caught, there would have been no charge of "grand larceny." If, on the other hand, he wanted to get away with murder, why didn't he withdraw the whole 5 mil and leave the country in a New York minute?
I guess you're right, the guy is truly dumb.

Commerce Bank? One of the biggies?

Wonder what international trading will look like in 5 years, limited to penny stocks?

Let's see, he may go to jail, and the idiots at the bank who miss-handled someone's money this horribly will probably keep working.

Too bad he lost it all. He should have taken it all out, and hired a good lawyer.

How can this possibly happen? This is gross negligence and incompetence on the part of the bank. Doesn't Commerce use numbered accounts?