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Woman withdrawing stimulus money sees $8.5m in her account

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A woman in Florida has been left disappointed after an ATM error showed she had millions in her bank account while she was withdrawing her stimulus money.

Diana Lagulli described her shock when she withdrew $20 from an ATM in Wawa, Sanford, that her receipt said her balance was $8.5 million, FOX 35 first reported. A similar mistake occurred the previous day, when a PNC Bank ATM showed that she had $3.5 million in her account.

"I thought it was an angel putting money into my account," Lagulli told Newsweek. "Sure would have been nice. I would have bought a new car because my car is falling apart, my electric is two months behind, water is two months behind, and we owe our landlord half a month's rent."

Lagulli had confirmed with her bank that the money was not in her account.

"Was nice to dream, but at least I can say I have a receipt that showed that I had a balance of 8 million dollars," Lagulli said. "Well, the fairy tale is over, back to reality."

Lagulli speculated that even if she did have the money, it may not have lasted long as she enjoys paying it forward and helping people.

She told a story about how she paid for the diapers that she saw nurse in scrubs picking up at a local Walmart. "I love seeing their faces," she said. "I love doing that."

Lagulli said she used her stimulus money to pay her rent, but is still waiting for her family's unemployment benefits to arrive.

A similar incident happened to a man in Indiana also withdrawing his stimulus money from an ATM.

Charles Calvin, of New Chicago, described his shock after a receipt printing error showed that he had $8.2 million in his account.

"Holy crap, this has got to be wrong," Calvin told The Times of Northwest Indiana. "I'm like, 'What in the world is going on? There's no way I have $8.2 million in my bank account.'"

Just like Lagulli, Calvin said he would have shared the millions among his community if that was his actual balance.

"It kind of sucks," he told WGN 9. "You go from being a millionaire one second then back to being broke again. But hey, once you're poor you don't have anywhere else to go but up."

 

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