{"id":27476,"date":"2021-12-04T16:21:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T15:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27476"},"modified":"2021-12-04T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T15:21:52","slug":"if-a-substantial-sum-of-money-unexpectedly-appeared-in-your-bank-account-what-would-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27476","title":{"rendered":"If a substantial sum of money unexpectedly appeared in your bank account, what would you do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is what happened in August 2020 to Helen Peters [not her real name] when she found that Her Majesty&#8217;s Revenues &amp; Customs (HMRC) deposited in her bank account the sum of \u00a3774,839.39. She decided to wait and see what would happen but found herself spending almost \u00a320,000 before contacting a newspaper to ask what she should do. It&#8217;s in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2021\/dec\/04\/hmrc-mistake-return-cash-revenue\">the news<\/a> today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A similar thing happened to me in November 1980. At the time, I was banking with Barclays before I withdrew my account in protest at the bank&#8217;s involvement in apartheid South Africa. My account suddenly showed a deposit of \u00a3324,610.00. I paid it back in days. But it was fun while it lasted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happened in August 2020 to Helen Peters [not her real name] when she found that Her Majesty&#8217;s Revenues &amp; Customs (HMRC) deposited in her bank account the sum of \u00a3774,839.39. She decided to wait and see what would happen but found herself spending almost \u00a320,000 before contacting a newspaper to ask what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27478,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27476\/revisions\/27478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}