Nobody at the Commonwealth Bank seemed overly concerned when customer Matthew Pearce told staff the bank had given him $123 million by mistake.
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They just laughed and shrugged their shoulders, Mr Pearce told Channel Nine.
The Melbourne glazier awoke in November last year to find his phone telling him that a small personal bank balance had somehow risen overnight to the princely sum of $123,456,789.01.
"It [his banking app] actually gave me the option to transfer the money and BPAY it, so I could actively transfer money into someone else's account," he told Channel Nine.
"I was pretty shocked about it. I thought they'd actually paid me the money thinking I was someone else."
When he contacted CommBank, he says a customer service representative laughed at his story and said, "Oh, that's great."
He told Channel Nine that "nothing was done" about his mystery windfall for two full weeks, when another bank representative called him to say there had been a "glitch in the system and it can happen sometimes".
His original bank balance has been restored. A spokesman for CommBank told Channel Nine the bank was investigating the glitch.
Mr Pearce approached the media to tell his story after reading the story about Sydney student Christine Jiaxin Lee, 21, who spent her accidental $4.6 million windfall from her Westpac account on millions of dollars of designer fashion.
