Hundreds of people in Santa Cruz de Tenerife emptied their bank accounts after rumours that cash machines were giving money away for free on Friday night.
"Some nutcase must have taken out money, seen the transaction didn't appear on screen and assumed he hadn't been charged," local IT engineer José Luis Ávila told The Local.
Rumours spread like wildfire on social networks and soon queues of opportunistic islanders crowded outside CajaCanarias cashpoints in a money-hungry frenzy.
But what seemed to be Spanish banks' biggest act of involuntary generosity in recent times turned into a grim reality when account holders saw their money had actually disappeared the next day. Full story...
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"Some nutcase must have taken out money, seen the transaction didn't appear on screen and assumed he hadn't been charged," local IT engineer José Luis Ávila told The Local.
Rumours spread like wildfire on social networks and soon queues of opportunistic islanders crowded outside CajaCanarias cashpoints in a money-hungry frenzy.
But what seemed to be Spanish banks' biggest act of involuntary generosity in recent times turned into a grim reality when account holders saw their money had actually disappeared the next day. Full story...
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