Uh-oh! Your credit card bill just arrived, and a familiar dread builds up as you open up the statement. Just before you look to judge the damage, a deep regret swells up as you recollect the purchases of the past month. On reflection, buying those ‘must have’ snakeskin leather shoes probably wasn’t completely justified, and somewhere, in the hazy depths of your mind, you remember stumbling home from the bar a few weeks previously, after leaving your credit card behind. Ouch!
It’s true, we all pay for things we later regret, but it seems that some people get more than they bargained for!

1. The 23 Quadrillion Visa Charge

Josh Muszynski from New Hampshire said he swiped his card at a gas station to buy cigarettes. When he later checked his account online, it showed he had been charged: $23,148,855,308,184,500. Insane, but true – a 17 digit charge, which visa cited as a ‘temporary programming error’.

2. Thirteen Year-Old Boy Pays for Escorts

A 13 year-old boy from Texas was charged with fraud after he used his father’s credit card to have a $30,000 spending spree, including paying for escorts.
He ordered an extra credit card from his father’s credit card company and with his friends in tow, went shopping! They were found with numerous electronic gadgets, playing ‘Halo’ on their new Xbox console with two $1000/night hookers. Later on (after a media storm) it came to light that the whole story was fictitious.

3. Husband Racks Up $60,000 on Wife’s Cards

Vige Barrie’s husband spent $60,000 on more than ten credit cards under his wife’s name. Her husband over the years had made and lost millions of dollars, but yet she allowed him to have access to her cards after he was declared bankrupt. She has negotiated a deal with her credit card companies to pay the loan off herself.

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