The ATM Glitch That Made a Millionaire
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2023
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The story of how Aussie barman, Dan Saunders discovered a glitch in the National Australia Bank ATM system that he exploited to have a 4 month binge on millions of dollars that that wasn't his.
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I like to imagine that big atm/bank companies are sitting around a campfire telling horror stories and one of the companies tells this story
well Bank of Ireland obviously wasn't there because a recent glitch made a ton of people go and get money
Truly the most horrifying story to ever be told
Big ATM
Crazy how you can just steal that much money and basically not face serious consequences. Had he not gone on TV, he would've gotten away with it.
Submitted for the approval of The Midnight Society, I call this.....
Dan honestly seems like a good guy.
yeh actually
Too good
YEAH
i mean yeah who would have access to all of NAB's money and not be tempted lol
billionares with practically infinite money spend it all on making the world a worse place
but some random dude given actual infinite money spends it all on making the lives of every person he meets much better?
im starting to think it isnt the money that makes people evil
The best part is the speech his boy gave at the NAB staff party they threw. "Thank you NAB, we couldn't have done this without you." Freakin legendary mate!
😊 this would not be possible without you he said
What an honest and selfless guy. Glad he was the one that found the glitch.
great take, me too!
Dan's an idiot, he could have set himself up for life. Keep it hush. Take as much money as u can, say 2-5 million USD then leave the country and go live out the rest of your days in paradise. Whats the point in spending to impress strangers. Man could have even bought himself an education which he clearly lacked
Yeah I agree, I just find sad his fiance left him
To be fair, there's a bias at play. People who might've found the glitch but kept silent & who we know nothing about.
@@zboobafett5984 his fiance didnt want to be caught up with it. like he's literally Walter White. I'd make the same decision too
The man stole 1.6 million dollars from a national bank and got away with it so thoroughly that he practically had to BEG them to press charges against him!
The bank was so clueless during the whole process
@@RyanSoltani More like they didn't want to let people know that someone actually withdrew money out of thin air, or it might cause their users to lose trust in the bank. Joeseppi talked about this in the video lol.
That's where the truth seems to be as things stand - if you ruined someone's balance, you can get away with it, but start touching their PR and they will get super pissed. The dude basically told everyone in the country on live TV "hey, this bank doesn't give a crap about security" and that's when things went downhill
That, and the fact that while 1.6 million can result in this for one individual, it’s a literal drop in the bucket for a bank. Six-month cash profit of $4.07bn for NAB as of May this year. Barely even worth the hassle for them, let alone the bad PR. For reference, the fine you cop for breaching sanctions facilitating a payment to Iran is around 2.1 million dollars. Banks operate on different wealth scales
@@IdOnThAvEaUsE69 im aware that Joeseppi mentioned the possibility that they just didn’t want people to figure out what was going on but I don’t think that was the banks plan throughout the process of the money glitch. They probably decided to keep quiet after Dan stopped and they realized what he had done
this man LITERALLY found an Infinite Money Glitch and became an Australian MrBeast, absolute madman
Australian man finds an infinite money glitch, abuses the hell out of it, tells his friends, helps people in need then practically begs to get arrested.
@@mildlydumbperson8465that was the most accurate “TL:DR” I’ve ever read.
@@EpicAntos i have no idea what that means
@@mildlydumbperson8465Too long didn’t reed
@@mildlydumbperson8465 it means Too Long : Didn't Read, basically being a heavily summarised version of the story
"If youll buy the beers mate, ill be straight down" is basically the australian motto.
Over here in Cali it's I got couple rolled up ready to light so bring the ladies with you on your way and some 40oz of old E, that's the OG way real talk
That is not a sentence a single Australian has ever said
The fact this is becoming a movie (old title "Cash out" new title "ATM Boy") is the funniest thing I've ever heard. Good luck to the lads who are making it.
Cash out was such a better name.
I love how joeseppi will find the most niche story to make a 40 minute video about
True
Not very Niche. It was on Vice News ~3 years ago, they're making a movie about it AND IT WAS LITERALLY ON THE PRIME TIME NEWS
"most niche" not so much kiddo
@@wacotablet1055yeah I wouldn’t really call it niche but tbf I never heard of it until now
Niche? I've seen like 5 different UA-cam videos about this. I'm only watching it this one time because it's Joeseppi.
Leaving ten dollars for someone to find then just laughing at them is probably the most wholesome prank ever
I did this at work in a grocery store. Pulled out a few 20s and every few hours went by the cleaning ladies cart and hid one where only she would find it. The look of confusion was priceless.
Also this was during a very depressing period of my life and I stopped caring about if I was going to have no money. At least it made other happy to receive some cash, which in turn made me a little bit happy aswell
@@searsbear7965did This once when I was in school I was 16 and I seen a maybe 7-8 yr little dude I put a 10 in his bag barely out and he didn’t notice it at first so I told em 😂
@@searsbear7965And then every customer and employee clapped in unison
Whilst cruising on a cruise ship I've left gratuities for the cabin cleaners
The best gratuity I've even given was two starbucks gift cards. I left them on the the night stand. They looked nice just sitting there, waiting to be pocketed
The kicker: they were gift cards with balances of zero
Imagine the looks on those people's faces when they're at starbucks and realize the balances were zero
Mr Beast, the most notorious prank UA-camr in history
the fact that this specific youtube video url ends with ATM, all in capital makes me very happy.
Wow how did you even notice that?
@@deslow7411it’s literally in the url of your browser
Makes you wonder how many folks there are just like Dan out in the world, I'd say thousands. He's just an example of a guy who actually wanted to get caught.
This guy is the irl equivalent of those people who just show up in videos games, buys people many gifts, and leave.
nah he's like those modders who spawn people infinite money and have fun with them rather than just griefing
@@bigboi1061 Hackers in the early versions of GTA V online that would give huge amounts of ingame money to everyone in the server seemingly for no reason and leave right after yeah eheh
Got millions of money from that once and never had to get money anywhere again lol
Dat one time i just started played an MMORPG game i met with a nice guy. He give me some useful tips and item for newbie and helps me levelling up. After a week playing, he gave all his items and money to me, and said he prob wont be able to play the game again cause he got admitted in the army and told me to keeps his things for him when he come back. 4 years ago the game server closed, and he never came back online. BioG33KHassle, u were a gud fren even for the short time we met
Yea i remember some hackers dropping like easter eggs with a lot of money.@@oetam5204
My first moment like that was Borderlands 2. I joined a game with someone who had a cheat on where the slot machines always gave you legendaries. Dude showered me with all of the best legendaries and just dipped. What a legend.
My favourite part of this story is how Dan could have easily spent the money on himself without telling anyone else, yet instead abused the bank glitch to grant the dreams of those in need
Dan seems like a nice guy
Fr
I did not expect Dan to be so wholesome
He giving money to the two girls so they can get the substance was really wholesome
Those In need: giving a woman 500 for a dress and more for shoes, and 2 others money for drugs :D indeed, ppl. In need xD
That's literally THE GREATEST STORY I'VE EVER HEARD. God that was good. I was literally so excited hearing every little detail to this. If there wasn't a movie being made already, I'd be tempted to make one myself. And to think, he would have gotten away completely if he didn't make those TV interviews...smh. Either way, that story is still AMAZING
yeah another good one is the hackers who got the prototype xbox 360 or whatever it was
I mean, it is 'tardery of the highest magnitude
The greatest? I know you know that's not true. Why lie?
🗿@@jd2161
The movie office space is literally this same concept. Thats crazy something actually happened like this though
There was apparently an ATM glitch like this where I lived when I was little, but the lady who found it was not smart about it at all and decided to withdraw as much as possible and whenever the ATM was restocked. Made it obvious that there was an issue when the machine had to be restocked more often than usual, so caused them to investigate, found who was exploiting the ATM, and they fixed the ATM. It happened on a small island so it wasn't really inconspicuous
Which island?
@@MysteryMan404the small one
Honestly, I was expecting this story to go down in flames at any moment. Him just accepting that he’ll be caught and turning himself in honestly the last thing I expected from this whole ordeal. Glad to see he’s out of prison and living a normal life
Fr I was literally waiting in anticipation for the whole operation to come crashing down because it sounded too good to be true
Goes to show that often our imaginations of catastrophe are not as severe in reality
@@jmz2144yeah, we overestimate what happens if we fail then what really happens. We assume everyone knows as much as we do about it.
Its a good day when joeseppi blesses his audience with a 40 minute video
it’s the longest video on his channel…
We’ve been blessed 🙏
Truly
Indeed, Joseppi always uploads when we need it
I kinda like the nutshell video more ngl
Im not saying this type of videos r bad tho.
Is a good day when joseppi just is
I use to be a taxi driver. Could not afford any schooling as I had 5 kids. This man paid for my Drs schooling. Now I make $500,000 as a surgeon with my own practice. I owe this man my life.
Mashallah
Genuinely ?
Pay it forward
why are you lying lmao
Bro made up a story for no reason
This is BY FAR one of the greatest stories I have ever heard in my entire life, absolutely EXCELLENT video mate!! 10/10.
One thing missing from this video. Apparently, he did talk to a lawyer about what went on after he did not hear anything for a few years. The lawyer even told him that it is very likely that they will not chase it up out of worry of loss of reputation. He basically told him to stay hush and it should blow over. This is a key point because even though he was told by a lawyer that he's a lucky man and his likely gotten away with it, he still felt guilty and turned himself in anyway. Truly wholesome chap.
he knew that he wouldn't have to serve much time and that he could make more money from his story if he just came clean.
Statue of limitations, dude had the evidence, all he had to do was wait a few more years to tell everyone. Then BOOM! Bank gets pissed that he ruins their PR and can't do anything about getting him charged.
wholesome chap? you mean the Dumbest chap ever?
but that was the way to sell his story to hollywood!
@@sk31370n no, it would have been an even better story if he'd gotten off the hook, just by waiting a couple of years longer and then broke the news.
Dan basically got a free trial to live as a rich person before he had to pay the subscription fee
Its like pirating money. I love it. 🤣🤣
Lmao
@@calmaddox5203
Pirating money, no no no that's the banks job
@@Lamster66 i wish you were wrong... lol
Bro couldnt have the discord nitro to steal ppls e girls😢
If Dan would have gotten a fake ID and used it to get an NAB bank card he could have used the software error to pull cash out of ATMs for a nonexistent person. In other words he didn’t have an exit strategy.
He's a helpless drunktard and a gambler. He has a way with making peace with the monstrous consequences of his actions
In other words, the exit strategy is not to exit at all
Yeah, this would have been the way to do it.
He knew he didn't have an exit strategy but he didn't care lol, just genuinely addicted to making people happy lol what a legend
How exactly can you make a bank account with a fake ID? At least in the US you can’t - I mean you’re gonna need a whole identity to make a new account. ID plus social security number and credit profile - maybe doable but not just some stupid fake id you can buy on the internet but then your Getting way bigger punishment if you get caught creating fake social security numbers or identity theft then what he got
the real exit strat was what he was doing at first - but instead of gambling he could have simply invested the cash and pay back the debt with real earned money, then you can earn the money on your own once you own several properties and hotels that basically generate the cash for you. If you still feel guilty, you could literally then just contact the bank and pay them back what you've stolen and then some, even if they decided to arrest you after they don't have any strong evidence and most of your wealth is of your own earning.
You could still do everything he did. too, he's just restarted.
"we couldn't do this without you" the words of an absolute Chad 🤣🤣🤣
do you not know how to spell the word cad?
@@christopher480wtf
I'm happy Dan had great loyal friends that didn't want to backstab him, not usually how these stories go.
He backstabed himself
@@faujisimp7090he was true to himself
@@faujisimp7090 Better than guilt tripping yourself till the day you die.
@@faujisimp7090that’s what paranoia does to ya
do ya really think his mates would backstab him when he has basically free unlimited beer?
Dan paying people 500 bucks to steal the ball in roulette games is probably one of the funniest things he did with the money lol
Yeah because it definitely wasn't him throwing a huge party for the bank. Are you serious? 🤦
@@ryanturner3432 I said that it was one of the funniest not THE funniest lol
Didn't wait to see that shit, I knew the video was bullshit 'cause i'm not a dickhead.
I agree, but how did he manage to go on the island vacation for 2 days, when he had to withdraw money from an Australian ATM every single night ?
This made me laugh - Instantly when I heard this i thought he was an absolute legend ffs ahahahaha
I don't think they need to make a movie about this incident. Just watch this video. It's so good. I was engaged, entertained and flabbergasted the entire time. This is high quality content. I applaud you, Joeseppi.
I'll call Disney and tell them not to bother 😂😂
The movie office space is very similar to this concept
“Get that up ya”
Brings back so many strange memories
This has to be the most beautiful Millionaire story ever. Man figured out a once in a lifetime glitch and still shared it with everyone.
More like a once in 100,000 lifetimes because this was craaaazy
To be honest, keeping it to himself would have been far more risky. But I agree that it was really nice of him
Dan's an idiot, he could have set himself up for life. Keep it hush. Take as much money as u can, say 2-5 million USD then leave the country and go live out the rest of your days in paradise. Whats the point in spending to impress strangers. Man could have even bought himself an education which he clearly lacked @@wocky661
Its refreshing to hear a story that hasn't been repeated time and time again its the first time I've heard about this.
I've heard this story several times but never in as much detail, it was way more interesting than I thought
I love that he's wearing a "I've done me self a mischief" shirt in the one interviiew. What a Chad! I wish I knew him during the party days. Live like royalty and screw over a national corporate bank at the same time? What fun!
This entire story is essentially "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem"
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Actually if he ever got arrested it wouldn't be his fault technically because he could have reported the glitch but he didn't but its the banks glitch so it there fault for not keeping up to date
thank you someone that has fuckin sense
bro I know of a glitch right now where a certain bank I'm with would charge overdraft fees. They have a way they have it set, where you can opt out of overdraft service through their online account portal. Say if you have 1K in your account, you could make a charge for $1k, and if you opted into overdraft it'd only take the money out for a sec and then would make it look like nothing was charged till the actual "credit charge" went through a week later. Granted you have to have the money in your account to make something happen.I once charged $1k twice and a few days later the charges went thru and I was neg $2k. Paid it off, but I imagine I could do a lot more with it.@@Galatic_
@@Le-Ligma be quiet b4 someone uses that
I'm starting to think he wasn't the only one to abuse this glitch...
Interesting
I did, but it was a lot earlier than 2010. You could withdrawl from savings accounts with $0 in them. Commbank, ANZ, NAB, Suncorp all went down on saturday nights between 1997-2000 i rorted at least 25k from them. As a very young nieve raver addicted to drugs. albeit I didn't have my shiet together as much as this guy and ended up loosing cards to the machine etc.
Most late night servo attendants knew about it also. Because a lot of crackheads would come in at that time and get $500 (which was maximium) cash out from the eftpos. then drive to the next servo and do the same.
i bet at least a few hundred people new about that glitch and this is low. could be even thousands.
@@nowindnowavesnogirls-nofun4079 the thing is, if you don't keep topping off the account it goes negative so you have to keep doing it or like dan, your account then catches up and goes into the negative. So if anyone else did it, when the glitch was fixed all their accounts went into the negative.
I bet, you're one of those. hmmm hahaha
About halfway through the video I was convinced this was some sort of copy-pasta or prank story because there's no way someone would make that many awful decisions after hitting the holy grail. In fact, it is not difficult to figure out the bank would just hush it up due to the potentially catastrophic consequences for their business. Buddy had many opportunities to cash out and live in perpetual bliss.
He did,for three years didn't you watch? Didn't work.
23:19 Dan probably had enough with the greedy and also his 200 IQ move
“Seemingly creating cash from nowhere…”
I’m guessing the banks didn’t like someone else playing their own game…
yup, probably why they never really went after him. It's all made up money. They probably put an insurance claim and got back triple that amount.
It's honestly a really sorta cute story. Like, he didn't try to run away with the money or something. It really shoes that he was a good guy. Sure, he scammed a bank our of over a million of dollars. But he accepted his guilt and he put close ones at the forefront. It's the type of criminal behaviour one can respect. Happy to hear he's living a calm life. Hopefully all goes well for him
It’s cool that he’s just chillin and enjoying life after all that
Yeah it really does shoe
@@speedyalf5900 indeed it does shoe. I was writing it on mobile at like 10 pm, cut me some slack lmao
do you feel bad for the bank? lol he did nothing wrong
I mean he basically did what the Federal Reserve has always done
create money out of thin air lol
The video editing was so funny and amazingly done!
Great story!
dude pls make more story videos like this .i love ur style and the way u tell the stories are so nice
It's absolutely darling that he chose to do this with his friends, fully aware that it was going to end at some point and choosing to be generous with it.
no, they corrupted him into thinking that was the best outcome, when in reality he wanted to gamble it, make profit and pay back whatever he "owed"
They used him. If I was his friend I would have told him to master the exploit then see if the bank has a bug bounty program. This would have most likely been a decently paid exploit, and who knows probably would have found a way to not have the cash become withdrawn in his checking account.
Same thing happened to a scotiabank and they kept it quite because an employee stole a fraction of a dollar from millions of customers
Wonder how much they transferred to their own accounts before he pulled the plug? They’re for sure paying off dudes court fees
never expected a documentary from Joeseppi, yet here we are.
Well and here we are
He already one before.
He’s already done it before though
Yea maybe cuz his channel mainly revolved around nutshell videos
He had them cornered. The bank had to choose bethween admitting a NASTY flaw in ALL machines for all investors to hear or a measly 1.6Mil in the hands of the madman that keeps the secret
Back in the day, I was living on the fringes when ATM’s came into service in Aust. There were all sorts of bugs in them. Side by side you could withdraw from one machine, stick a pop stick in the door to make it go out of service, then withdraw the same from the next machine.
Another was ANZ, on Wednesday night at 11.30/12 midnight the machine would reset or something, if you were quick you could get daily limit out in cash… that soon got around and there would be a que at the Rockingham ANZ at midnight Wednesday ha.
Yea fuck yea I remember them rorts growing up got 2 dole checks a fortnight 4 age's was only atm's that had like the metal lips where the money comes out n ya'd jam them open n it wouldn't close the transaction n let ya make another transaction from the side by sides n numerous max limit withdrawl from ANZ oh fuck me good time's the 90's was
With all that money that he probably could get away with, He could probably just fall with other millionaire tropes like buying a private jet, mansions, and a supercar. And yet, he chose to help people and just go on vacations with his closest friends. Just showed what type of a man he really is.
I mean, he did _rent_ private jets, helicopters, limos, and stayed in luxury hotels...
@@redslate ...and tipped the staff generously. Non-typical rich person.
Lol I would have just lived with it and ATMed out $10,000 a day, use the money as seed funding, build a company out of the cash flow and stop when I didn't need to "steal" anymore.
Bro dan is dumb as hell 😂 like holy crap. Why would you go on TV and snitch on yourself lmao
And he blew money like holy crap. He could've had a house and whatnot. Could've lived pretty well
@@handlemonium yeah, he had virtually infinite seeding investing money and just spent it all lmao
Also, what Dan did was small potatoes to the National Australia Bank: their own currency traders had lost $360 million in 2003-2004 through what amounted to fraud. Two of them, David Bullen and Vince Ficarra, were thrown in jail for a few years for it.
That's so strange. Normally bankers get to commit fraud without any punishment.
a few years is nothing for millions of fraud @@thewhitefalcon8539
Kalamunda and Mundaring Shire Councils invested millions in the sub-prime fiasco in America . They sent the money over at $1Au = 50 cents US and the Aussie climbed to 1Au to 1.12 US ! So their investment would have returned less than half their initial stake . The received some compensation from the US banks , but to this day refuse to admit how much of the public's money they actually lost . Rumour is about $20 M Au .
If only people saw through the mirage! They would recognise they are of true value & this system has taken them for one big ride! This story is but one example of that. I’m glad he got to enjoy it.
That NAB party was genius 😂
IF he thought through why the police aren't after him after 3 years, like he deciphered the ATM glitch, he would've figured out that the bank's reputation was on the line and that he would've gotten away with it forever. Basically the bank paid him 1,600,000 for hush money.
This!
i mean obviously he wasnt too bright since he thought gambling when he has an infinite money glitch was the right thing to do LMFAO
Yep but I can also imagine how he must have had extreme anxiety for years you know. He needed relief.
@@TheDeeman25that did it for me 🤣. I would have lived a very simple life if I was Dan & try to keep and hidden away as much cash I could have gotton😅 doing the good deed myself.
25 years ago a 15 year old friend of mine hacked a local bank for 150k by letting his pc act as an atm and generating money from nothing, He went to the media and the bank vehemently denied that a 15 year old stole any money, he never had to pay it back. He was later offered a job as an IT security expert at the bank and he politely declined with a "I don't need to work for you to get your money"
Dan seems like a good dude. He spent that money better than the bank would have.
you know that 1.6 million would have went straight to upper management lol
Except for the gambling. Even with an infinite money glitch it ended poorly. Truly awful stuff. Would have been less upset with him buying lotto or raffle tickets, at least the money wouldn’t go to bookies and the house
All banks are, are businesses in which government can disperse large amounts of freshly printed money evenly among banking elite who do the most spending, depositing, & borrowing. Those people can never run out of cash & those in charge of the printing make sure of that.
He is not a "good dude". The story is funny, but Dan is a thief.
@@darthnatas953 oh no the poor banks got stolen from :((( how will they ever recover
The craziest part is that he could’ve actually gotten away with it 😅
This is one of the MOST amazing stories that I've come across so far. The delivery made it possible. Great stuff mate more powers to you! :)
I love how the second thing this bloke does as soon as he realises he truly can stop giving a shit is to help people, says heaps on human nature
no
it does
It’s crazy how smart he was to find the glitch but how he spent the money was so reckless
yeah if I discovered something similar I would just cash out a just bits form time to time, basically slowly creating a money safety net whenever I find myself needing a lot of money and never wasting it unless I really need it.
Basically trying to live a normal peaceful life but without having to worry about money, but there's obviously the risk of one day wanting to use it out of spite, something that you could say happened to dan after he lost his job and broke with his girlfriend.
Well, he had the live fast die young mentality. Not like such a plan would have ever worked out for him anyway. Paranoia almost ended him and the guilt ate him away.
Ultimately he improved the lives of so many people, that money was spent and gone and by giving it away there's no way they'd ever have been able to recover it. Worth it.
I never understood why people don't just go to some places without extradition. Just go to Cuba or Russia with a few millions and you'll be set for life.
Well infinite money is infinite money
24:45 😂Jeremy Fragrance
such a kind hearted man what a nice human bro!
It's crazy to think that if he hadn't felt that guilt he'd probably still be running around with that kind of money. Clearly Dan was a good person at heart
Definitely an idiot.
Clearly not. Just because he felt guilty does not make him good. A good person wouldn't have stolen to begin with.
Having a conscience doesn't make you a good person
@@billybob1831Well at least he felt the guilt, that's one step closer to be a decent person
@@billybob1831 Yeah but instead of just letting the arrest happen and attempt to become better he chased the punishment for his actions
most people wouldn't do that so that's a sign of maturing
@@billybob1831 Stolen? He was merely taking back some funds that the bank stole from government funding, aka taxpayers' money
Every time I here this story, I can’t help but feel NAB was entirely at fault. They had ample opportunity to catch and fix this loophole, yet they let Dan go absolutely nuts with their money.
Seriously what kind of shit system did they have that didn't immediately flag this behaviour. Transfering thousands from a credit card every single night, then spending it, then the bank even calling him to confirm and not noticing it was all coming from their bank's own credit card? lol
Their money? Depositors' money! Working people's money! The ordinary worker pays for these crimes when banks and insurance and mortgage companies and everyone else raises the cost of living one way or another to cover the losses. If you shoplift a grape, the store raises prices to get back what they paid for that grape. There is no victimless crime and the highest-ranking people never pay. The ordinary person pays higher mortgage rates or gets less for his investments or pays more for a house or petrol or food.
@@FigaroHeyThe banks are supposed to be fully insured so even if somebody robs them, the people are fine.
We all know that if an individual screwed up with their banking, like accidentally tagging an extra zero on the payment and going into debt, the bank would hold it against them. But when it's the bank who made a mistake, they still blame the individual.
@@demo2823 we keep things correct and disclose fees. It’s a major role in how everything works. This guy was just stealing.
I just wanna say not only is this an amazing story, but your narration and depictions of it are hilarious and entertaining. One of my new favorite UA-cam docs.
At least he was a good guy about it and shared his stolen money with just about everyone he met 😂
What an amazing story. Dan went on the ultimate thrill ride for any average joe. And he would've gotten away with it...if it wasn't for that meddling conscience of his
Moral of the story: dont you dare go into crime if you have a conscience
@@soliniv1411nice take bloke😅
So, I was only spending damn time on a damn story.
O God.
💯 sometimes we get in our own way!
Or that damn twitch in his right eye.
Dan was given a chance to get away with taking millions of dollars in cash because of no attempts at getting him caught, but his guilt had gotten to him so he told his story just to get it over with.
And now here we are, with a now average, but peaceful Dan. With a great sense of humor too!
(Wonderful video! Absolutely loved it!)
How many people like him that we just don't know about because they weren't caught?
if i would be in this deep i would have taken half a million and moved to south east asia or some shit.
@@longdongmc.johnsonyeah, somewhere where the law isn’t very clear
@@longdongmc.johnson Why stop there? Why not become a multi-billionaire? Sure, it would take a lot of trips, but you'd be a multi-billionare
@@romancatholicgameingI mean, he could take theoretically infinite money at one time. The only reason it would take several trips would be to carry it all.
This is a crazy, wild story! the end threw me for a loop!. Cant wait to go on the deep dive, best random click ever. Wonderful video also! Subbed!
He could have set himself up for life. What an idiot.
Don't worry. He did 😂😂
Thank You Joeseppi. People make videos about me all the time and get things very wrong. This was a joy to watch. All the best from the Real Dan Saunders.
Man, you have the most amazing story. Would you do it again if you had the chance?
@@yippy7951 im too old now. I would have a hrart attack for sure. 🤣🤣
this was definitely an interesting story
I'm curious: do you feel like the net sum of the whole ordeal was positive or negative for the people who you gave money to?
Did anyone of them get and charges or such for accepting the money?
@@amahlaka No it was definately a plus. All the people around me got to keep the money, no questions asked. The reason I went to Casinos was to clean the money.
Dan might just have *accidentally* become the most genius thief in existence
I can't believe I just watched a full ad on youtube!! Great advertisement, man!! You rock. Ah!! The ATM story itself was great also. Congratulations on them both. Keep up the good work. Thank man
Amazing vid as always, keep up the great work
This documentary was exceptional. It was thrilling, humorous, and incredibly engaging. The way you narrated his story was truly entertaining. Additionally, the video editing was spot on. It never became dull at any point. Truly well executed.
@@jenm1 Did you not like it?
Aye. Agreed. Just found this producer.and off the back of this exceptional film, I will be looking for more with a click on the Subscribe. Well earned I'd say
Couldn't agree more, at first i was like, its 40 minutes, but they flew by, really engaging indeed
I like the little picture animations.
@@TheAutumnWind_RN4Lthey are cool
Moral of the story: money doesn't exist. If Dan could literally make money out of thin air, from just manipulating literal electrons moving around in silicon and copper around, who's to say there aren't other people who do that on an even larger scale.
That's not exactly how money works.
I get what you're trying to say, but that's really not how money works.
This is merely grabbing money that wasn't registered and henceforth couldn't have an impact on it's value.
Just printing money would defile the value.
Money itself is just the paper in your hands, the value is where it's at.
He made it out of "thin air" because the transactions were not registered and because of that, couldn't lower the value.
The Market is everything and the "big players" know how to play the Market.
Don't worry. They do in a _MUCH_ larger scale! How do you think Donald Trump got all his money?
@@rickwhite4137by being a smart business man. Nonetheless, being at the right place at the right time, knowing the right people and being borrowed $200m by your dad is of course a little helpful too I suppose
@@realrghnck When you say "smart businessman," you by definition exclude Trump, who has gone bankrupt seven times.
I guess you don't mean it's smart to convince elderly people to buy shares in a casino right before it goes bankrupt? Well, Donald Trump bragged about it, saying he was smart. Thousands of elderly people lost all their money.
He should be applauded, he really only illustrated exactly what the banks do to all of us one way or another, sad he didn't tuck a few million away for himself and then quote bank error in his favour that would have been an end to it right there, still with a movie deal in the making he'll be right! lol
And they say money doesn’t buy happiness 😂
This is such a heartwarming story. It makes me so very happy when a truly nice guy wins. A year in jail for all the smiles Dan made, sign me up!
Only 1.6 million? From the storytelling it felt like he was withdrawing much more than that! Especially with the whole parties going on, many lotery winners go bankrupt within a year with more amount of money spent. No way he only spent 1.6 million
He was dumb but not that dumb.
@@ShadX222 Constantly thinking "Yeah I'll just gamble and win back the money" is pretty far up the "dumb" scale. Or the "gambling addiction" scale, it's a little unclear.
@@henryptungnot really, you have the option of winning and paying back your debts, if you lose you still have the option to "steal" more money, if I had access to "unlimited loans" I would be gambling.
@@Connor-Does-Stuff "Option" is choice to be made. Not the word you're looking for...
@@henryptung you have the possibility of winning and paying your debts back* happy?
it's insane that this man can make a 39min video out of a story that some people will put in a short
shorts are carcenogenic
@@myfaveyoutubefact
Holy...That was 39mins!? Felt like i was watched a 10min video or something LMAO did not realize in the slightest
Fuck shorts.
@@diamanteduul8084 currently in between classes at my college, like a three hour break and i killed a third of it eating.
clicked on this video thinking it was like 20 minutes long, but nah, ended at the perfect time cause now the homie's class is ending so we can hang out while i wait for my next class lol.
This is hands down the most entertaining story I’ve watched on a long time. Specially nowadays with films being so boring and generic. Great job!
If I were him, I would have transferred like a million dollars over the course of several days, moved to a country that has this magical thing called "corruption" and no extradition treaty with Australia, and bought a house and a lambo with the cash.
U have to refill the money each day
six figure limit
@@diamondsprincebuy bitcoin every day for few weeks.
Six figures, per transaction, I believe. He was only restricted on cash withdrawls. He could have set up an account in the Cayman Islands or Cypress or possibly(?) Switzerland. Then, transferred $500,000 per night into his numbered account - until he had millions banked in that stash account - finally he could take an overnight flight there leaving at 2AM, withdraw it all in cash on arrival, deposit it in a few new banks down the street, and finally disappear over the horizon to open a little beachside bar somewhere under a recently purchased new identity. Or he could have been purchasing items that he could have secretly shipped somewhere to sell and then convert into cash at the other end. Or set up a company under a fake identity and invested the money extracted via any of the previous methods into something safe, low key, and only making enough to keep the accounts flush (a diverse portfolio of commodities, perhaps?) so that he could 'be hired' as an employee, under yet another false identity, and managed those investments - in perpetuity - after he 'disappeared.' But he was not really out to fleece NAB. He was basically an honest-ish good person who was tempted by fate, took advantage of it while being fabulously generous and kind, and ultimately forced the law to punish him so he could be live free of guilt and anxiety.
Caïman islands 👍🏻🤭👍🏻
Your editing is absolutely insane. I know this isn't a Q and A, but like how do you do it????
Genuinely I'm a massive fan of your work. Keep it up! :3
He probably found an editing glitch ;)
This video was top notch
Oh no this is horrible
Cheers mate! Great video that outbids any network piece!
my mate's friend worked in Centerlink and he was responsible for updated the records of people who died, at some point instead of marking them dead, he just started changing their bank details to his, so their pension will end up in his account...and he did this for 3 fkn years before he was caught, can you imagine how much money he was making? he got fired, bit there were no charges against him, because centerlink didn't want this story to go public
Can you imagine the power? That's crazy. I'm so happy he did so much for people. What a great thing to do.
The power of tricking you peeps into thinking this actually happened.
@@user-xg4fd2nn2j it didnt?
i agree... i guess it was still theft/fraud but he could have just spend all for himself and act like a a**hole!
@Judas1911WR1 sadly I side with anyone who helps. So the robbery parts okay. Its hell out here in starvation land
@Judas1911WR1 we are allowed to like Robin Hood so I think we can like this man as well.
The editing on this video is just next level!
Kudos to you and your editor for creating and improving such a great and fun style of editing videos
Yeah
I wholeheartedly concur. Surprisingly well presented, I enjoyed the vid the whole way through.
my favourite part has got to be the "va te faire foutre" wine at 25:10!
Better than the editing at ACA.
Yea I bet the editor is underpaid. XD
I actually liked the way you narrated this as well as the visuals … I actually watched this video twice bc the story telling was so good … cheers mate 🍻
How refreshing to enjoy a podcaster with a sense of humour. That was quite a story !
It was worth the wait. What a story and what a production. Loved it.
P.s. Dan couldn't be more stereotypically Australian if he tried. A legend.
As a Aussie I never knew this story so it was very interesting!
I'll just pay it back later.. When to the pub.
@@ShadowHawk99 exactly. I like that he shared the wealth too.
So it was all real?! Holy cow! This is by far one of the best stories I heard all year. Great video! I never knew this even existed. The bank should of fixed their software glitch. In the US you'd have a swat team not only come through your windows, they'd even crawl through your sewer pipes.
to be fair, out of all places, Australia is most fitting for this story.
Great video. Love the format with the photo heads!
Great editing! and storytelling!!!
I love how he discovered an infinite money glitch and his first instinct was to lose all of it from gambling
Average Australian
This is fascinating, I'm an Aussie and I'd never heard this story! Honestly, Dan sounds like a good person who just got swept up in the moment, and I think most people would have taken advantage of the glitch. All the stories of him giving money to people, especially so they could live out their own dreams or pay of debts is very endearing. I can see how it all would get too much for a person though, I'm naturally anxious and an over-thinker and I'd probably have ended up an anxious mess too.
Idiot (you "parkf... whatever")!
Bank must have spent a ton to maintain PR. This guy withdrew way less than the bank would have loss if this story made it to the public media properly.
I literally love these videos so much, the editing is so entertaining I can’t explain it
Amazing story, really enjoyed that! We've all had a similar fantasy, fascinating to hear it play out as a real story. Right, I'm off to the ATM, you never know...
the part about them paying people 500 dollars to run up to roulette tables and grab the ball out while its spinning had me crying lmfao
Zoloft need you, kilo about.
I started feeling anxious just hearing how he spent more and more money without being caught. Must've been hell of a stress.
The film did really well at presenting that, didn't they. Lol I was nervous on the edge of me seat ,, very well put together film.
Nab's slogan is "More than Money".
Irony at its finest😂
These story style videos are great! Wish there was more
This whole time, I was thinking "this would make a great movie". Glad to see it's actually being made into one, lol.
is it really?
@@Talearchive Yeah, he said in the video.
Bro really needs to make his own documentary series
The happy ending is to have him make those money back (well if not at least a fraction of it) from his contract with the movies and his books. Man deserves the win!
Moral of the story: Money is just numbers on a screen
I'd like to think I'd act differently and be smarter in the long run, but I'm not going to lie to myself.
This isn't the first I've heard of this tale, but it is the most engaging and compelling treatment. You really captured the humanity of the situation. Consider yourself followed!
I subscribed also. Exceptional quality content
Tale alright!