This sounds like everyone has their own version of the story.

I took a "Computer Security and Auditability" class, lets just say a few years ago, to keep age out of the discussion. They talked about this guy in the class. Supposidly, he purchased a house in the same neighborhood as the bank president, only nicer. That set off some reg flags to investigate the guy.

PF

>>>What I wanna know is who gets all these little rounded off fractions of cents. I'll have 'em! :-)
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>>I heard of a story 20 some years ago about a programmer that did just that. If I recall correctly the guy worked for a bank and he transferred from the 4th decimal to his bank account. He got caught and did some jail time.
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>Yeah, I know of this story. He became a latent millionaire. He didn't actually get caught though, as I recall; rather he "lost his bottle" (as we Brits say) and confessed. He couldn't live with the enormity of his embezzlement.