It sounds like something straight out of a movie: an unsatisfied bank programmer discovers the perfect scheme for making an ATM spit out free money.
But apparently, this story is true: The South China Morning Post and China’s Daily Economic News report that 43-year-old Qin Qisheng managed to withdraw over seven million yuan (upwards of $1 million) from ATMs operated by his employer, Huaxia Bank — all by exploiting a crazy loophole, according to The Verge.
According to the reports, the bank’s system didn’t properly record withdrawals made around midnight — effectively spitting out cash without removing the total from a user’s account. Normally, that might send up a red flag that a transaction had failed, but Qisheng allegedly inserted scripts into the system that suppressed those alerts.
Qisheng started pulling out money in November 2016, but it wasn’t until January 2018, some 1,358 withdrawals later, that the bank discovered the bad code in its system and brought him to the authorities.
Perhaps the most surprising part of this story: The bank didn’t want to keep pressing charges once he’d returned the money. Maybe fearing the bad publicity (apparently the loophole has already been fixed), Huaxia Bank reportedly asked police to drop the case — reportedly accepting Qisheng’s explanation that he was merely testing the bank’s security and was holding onto the money for the bank to reclaim. As one does.
The courts refused, though, and Qisheng is now looking at 10 and a half years in prison after losing his appeal. They didn’t buy the argument, considering that he’d moved the money to his personal bank account, instead of the bank’s dummy account, and had apparently been investing some in the stock market, too.
 

When it comes to making a decision, some people find it really easy to pick one thing out of several options.
For others it can be more of a challenge as they struggle with what the outcome of their choice may be, according to Mirror.
One woman has found making decisions so difficult she’s currently on the lookout for someone to take ‘control’ of her life and make all her decisions for an entire month.
And she’s willing to pay this person a pretty decent amount of money to do it.
The unnamed woman from Bristol has shared an advert on bark.com seeking help after having a particularly bad year.
She wrote: “Hiya, bit of a weird one I know but basically, I feel like I need someone to make my decisions for me.
“I’ve had a really rubbish year and would love for someone to take control of my life.”
“I have no idea if this sort of thing exists, but I came across clairvoyants when I was looking for another service, so I thought it was worth a shot.”
The woman went on to
explain all of the terrible things that had happened to her
lately, including losing money she loaned to a friend, getting stranded without money while backpacking in New Zealand, and getting mugged after taking a shortcut home.
She continued, “I am obviously completely incapable of making the right choices by myself.
“My mom even jokes about it. It seems like every week some minor mishap will happen to me and I’m fed up.”
Claiming to be ‘quite spiritual’ the woman admitted she’d like to find a ‘clairvoyant or spiritual guide’ that she can connect with for a month to help her get her life back on track.
In order to do this, the person she ‘hires’ will need to help her decide things such as what she should spend her savings on.
She added, “Basically I’d like the person to be on-call so they can help me whenever and with whatever I need.
“I text a lot so they should be available to message me frequently and very quick to respond.
“I’m really ready to try anything — and I’ve set aside £2,000 for this from some inheritance money I received last year.”

If you don’t succeed at first, hide all evidence that you tried.