Citigroup erroneously credited $81 trillion, instead of $280, to a customer's account and took hours to reverse the transaction, a "near miss" that shows up the bank's operational issues it has sought to fix,

A customer of Citigroup was given a big surprise after it had mistakenly transferred $81 trillion dollars into the customer's

Last year, an employee at Citigroup accidentally initiated a fund transfer to a customer’s account that would have made them the wealthiest person in the history of human existence. The incident, which took place last April,

Citigroup Inc. erroneously credited $81 trillion to a customer’s account instead of $280 last April before reversing the transaction hours later, according to the Financial Times.

The customer was only meant to receive $280, but Citi instead credited their account with $81 trillion last April — which not only dramatically exceeds Citigroup’s market valuation of $150 billion, according to The New York Times, but also the combined GDP of the top 10 richest countries.

Citigroup Inc. almost shifted about $6 billion to a customer’s account by accident after a staffer handling the transfer copied and pasted the account number into a field for the dollar figure.

Citigroup nearly transferred $6 billion to a customer by mistake due to a copy-paste error, shortly after another error of $81 trillion. The error was reported to regulators and provoked frustration within the company.

Citigroup (NYSE:C) nearly transferred $6 billion to a customers account in its wealth-management division due to a copy-paste error, Bloomberg News reported. The mistake happened when a staff member accidentally pasted