Dan Saunders, an Australian bartender, had a funny evening. During an evening, he finds himself, tipsy, in front of an ATM and exploits a loophole that will make him a millionaire, reports The Sun. While trying to transfer money between his savings and credit accounts, the bank shows him an error message but gives him the cash anyway, without debiting his account!
A flaw that appears every night, between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. “I felt like a caveman discovering fire,” he tells Vice.
Thanks to this money, Dan lives like a prince: luxury hotels, gourmet restaurants, private jet for him and his friends… for expenses of a total of 1.6 million Australian dollars (1 million euros) . “People just gave me their dreams and I made them happen,” he says.
“I think a small part of me wanted it to stop, but I had passed the point of no return, my life had changed dramatically.” The story, however, gradually begins to shift. Dan often dreamed of getting caught by the authorities.
Three years after the fact, he was eventually charged with 111 counts and sentenced to a year in prison: “I just sat down, pleaded guilty and kind of let it all play out on front of me “. He later became a bartender again.