23,148,855,308,184,500 - Visa’s stab at priceless
Visa Inc , one of the world’s largest facilitator of retail electronic payment network among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses and government entities , today announced that a computer programming glitch in its debit processing center resulted in erroneous posting of $ 23,148,855,308,184,500 on some of it customer’s prepaid accounts. It appears like some of customers are also a charged “over draft” fee for the same.
But once the problem was detected, it was corrected immediately and visa issued following statement ”A temporary programming error at Visa Debit Processing Services, caused some transactions to be inaccurately posted to a small number of Visa prepaid accounts. The technical glitch, which impacted fewer than 13,000 Visa prepaid transactions, has been corrected and erroneous postings have been removed. Importantly, this incident had no financial impact on Visa prepaid cardholders.”
Visa : Good attempt on priceless , it will definitely take good amount of time for any normal human being to figure to what to call “$ 23,148,855,308,184,500″.
