A programming error was the reason behind the 13,000 erroneous postings in prepaid transactions. Josh Muszynski who belongs to Manchester, New Hampshire was shell shocked when he checked his online statement of Bank of America account. His account had been charged a mammoth $23,148,855,308,184,500 which is more then global Gross Domestic Product. He was charged approximately 2000 times more then the US national debt for just buying a pack of Camel cigarettes from a gas station.

After waiting on the phone for over two hours he was told that US $ 23 quadrillion charges and the $15 overdraft fee would be taken off his account as it was a system error. Much to his respite or else his next few generations would have slogged all there lives to pay this humongous debt.

The company has now assured customers that the programming error has been fixed and that all falsely issued fees and erroneous transactions have been voided. “Erroneous postings have been removed … this incident had no financial impact on Visa prepaid cardholders.”

This nightmare of the visa users is over now and we can just hope there will be no more programming errors on the visa transaction server.