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U.S. man charged $23 quadrillion for pack of cigarettes

19:2915/07/2009

MOSCOW, July 15 (RIA Novosti) - A U.S. man has discovered that he was charged more than $23 quadrillion for a pack of cigarettes that he bought at a filling station using his Visa card, WMUR-TV reported on Wednesday.

When his checked his online bank account, Josh Muszynski discovered that he was $23,148,855,308,184,500 ($23,148 trillion) in the red.

"I thought my card had been compromised. I thought somebody had bought Europe with my credit card," he said.

Muszynski turned to the sales assistant at the store, but "she said she couldn't help me at all. She didn't know anything about it," he explained.

He then phoned the Bank of America to find out where the mysterious string of numbers on his account had come from. After two hours on the phone to the bank, a representative still had no explanation, but assured Muszynski that his statement would be corrected.

Some 24 hours later the huge negative balance on his account was reversed back to normal.

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