A student who received a staggering $1,080,000 instead of her usual $108 monthly university financial aid is in hot water after going on a massive 73-day spending spree with her friends. Accountancy student Sibongile Mani, 27, who was on benefits to allow her to study, was said to have undergone a Cinderella-like transformation overnight after the cash blunder. Mani, who studies at the Walter Sisulu University in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa, gets $108 each month put into her bank account, which she is supposed to use to pay for food and book. But instead, Intellimali, the company that administers the financial aid allowances at the university, messed up and sent $1,080,000 in cash to ...

http://www.yahoo.com/news/m/2b86951b-1830-31af-81af-7b1981dc4ea7/ss_poor-student-lives-the-high.html

...would you have called financial aid?

those were my thoughts as well soufie

being in debt with my own student loans, I know they get it back one way or the other and WITH INTEREST,,I cant imagine owing millions with interest,,lol

It actually happened on the Continent of Africa,, so her name is probably just fine.

A student who received a staggering $1,080,000 instead of her usual $108 monthly university financial aid is in hot water after going on a massive 73-day spending spree with her friends. Accountancy student Sibongile Mani, 27, who was on benefits to allow her to study, was said to have undergone a Cinderella-like transformation overnight after the cash blunder. Mani, who studies at the Walter Sisulu University in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa, gets $108 each month put into her bank account, which she is supposed to use to pay for food and book. But instead, Intellimali, the company that administers the financial aid allowances at the university, messed up and sent $1,080,000 in cash to ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/2b86951b-1830-31af-81af-7b1981dc4ea7/ss_poor-student-lives-the-high.html

...would you have called financial aid?

Maybe I am the weird one or maybe I am too honest, but I would contact financial aid. I would know it wasn't right and qould at least bring it to their attention. I don't wamt bad karma.

It actually happened on the Continent of Africa,, so her name is probably just fine.

I would have placed it in high interest yeilds or something that would give maximum gain with no loss. I mean she is an accounting student right? Interest on one million eighty thousand dollars should be a significant increase over $108 per month?

Yep, your officially weird.
$1,000,000 is really good karma!

Score! Woo hoo!

Throughout my life, I seem to have some sort of magic lamp above my head, that flashes a blinding red light to the authorities if I even THINK about doing something wrong. I call it the IGC lamp, which stands for I Get Caught. That's why I'm so honest: it isn't because I'm a "good person," I can assure you.

So for sure, I would have left the money in my account, and at worst, quietly waited for them to show up and take it back.