[Candy Annie Cane]

I have had a situation today in reverse. We have temps who work for us and on Friday (when payroll hits the bank) one of my new temps rang and said she had not been paid. After a bit of investigation the temp had given is her sort code from one account and account number from another account. So her money had not been paid into any of her accounts. She was devastated as she had 54p in her bank account. I spoke with payroll and we did her a bank transfer to pay her her wages and said we would investigate. When we have had situation like this in the past, the money usually bounces around and then gets refunded. However, today I had a call from a guy in Newcastle who had tracked us down due to the reference and said he had had an amount of money paid into his account by us and obviously it was a mistake. He transferred it back immediately and my faith in humanity was restored as I feel that not many people would have been that honest after receiving hundreds of pounds of money for nothing

We are not sure how it even happened as the name of the account of the guy who received the money is nothing close to the name of the account who gave us the wrong details and so the bank are investigating.