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Australian woman notices her credit card suddenly has a $10 million credit limit

The amount was not actual money in her account but just a spending limit.

By Thor Benson
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GOLD COAST, Australia, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- An Australian woman was recently shocked to find her credit card that previously had a limit of $50,000 suddenly had an available balance of nearly $10 million.

Sue Lamb, 49, was taking money out of her business credit card account at an ATM and noticed her available balance had changed to $9,990,420.

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"Just checked my credit card, which has a limit of $50K, and guess what! I'm a millionaire!!" she posted on Facebook on Sunday. "Check out the balance. Plus I've got no debt on it sooo strange. Lol woo hooo let's goooooo girls Tahiti sounds nice. Best I fess up."

"The available balance on the BOQ ATM receipt refers to the amount of the monthly spend cap (monthly spend cap less any spend from that month) rather than the available credit," a spokeswoman from the credit card company, ANZ, said.

The bank changed the balance to the original amount but also left Lamb with $7,500 in overdraft fees, despite the fact she reported the incident. "The bank have just left me with a massive debt and won't pick up my calls," she told the Gold Coast Bulletin. "It is disgusting that they can treat people like this."

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