Man wakes up & finds £1.25m mistakenly deposited in his bank account [SEE PHOTOS]

21 year old Kieran McKeefery recieved an alert of  £1.25m.
He was baffled and couldn’t believe his eyes after he logged on to his
online banking and discovered he had a mystery £1.25 million in his
account.

“I checked my online banking and
immediately I noticed I had £1.25million in the bank. I was a bit fazed
at first. It was such a copious amount of money to be in my bank.”

Kieran called his bank to confirm, Natwest, and told them about
it. The bank investigated and told him the money was deposited by
mistake in his account by a huge investment
company via their bank and it was up to the bank to retrieve the money.
They said they would alert the bank of the mistake. It took that bank
10 days before the money was retrieved – leaving Kieran with a bonus
£210 of interest.

Honest Kieran, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, said:

“It was very strange and quite scary when
you are in that position, checking your bank to see if £1.25 million is
in there. I didn’t know what to do, except just wait and think about all
the things I could have spent it on. I thought ‘oh God, what has
happened’ – I was a bit shocked more than anything else.

“I called the bank and they said they would
look into it. I was kind of tempted [to spend the money]but I had read
stories about people spending money mistakenly placed in their accounts
and getting in trouble. I spoke to my partner and she said to just leave
it there and don’t touch it.

“I was buying a new car the next day and I
could have paid for it in cash – and bought quite a few more – with the
money in my account. The bank wasn’t really playing ball. It was a bit
crazy really.

“I had all this money in my account and
they said they had made the request [to the payee’s bank]and I just had
to wait. They said it was up to them to sort it.”

“The interest was pretty good really and they haven’t asked for it back,” said Kieran.

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