Wachovia: $211 trillion "word-processing error"

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Not necessarily manually typed

It was probably a mail merge and the fields got screwed up (the number was actually his account number, so it wasn't a random made up number or a data puncher leaning on his keypad). That could have happened at either the back end or the front end, but most likely it was the person who created the mail merge word document who screwed up. And don't tell me you've never heard of something like this happening at your job because there are a lot of people who have no idea how to use a word processor even though it's a critical tool of their job, but hopefully someone at your job would have caught it before it got mailed out.

Posted by: Michael Kelly   Posted on: 12/02/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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