{"id":172221,"date":"2018-07-19T23:45:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T03:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=172221"},"modified":"2018-07-19T23:45:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T03:45:44","slug":"woman-temporarily-becomes-millionaire-after-account-mix-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/19\/woman-temporarily-becomes-millionaire-after-account-mix-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman temporarily becomes millionaire after account mix up"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_172222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172222\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/money-3523131_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172222\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/money-3523131_1280.jpg\" alt=\"The 26-year-old opened the company's app on her cellphone and was surprised to find $1.1 million instead of the $50 that she had left a few months ago. (Photo: Pixabay)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/money-3523131_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/money-3523131_1280-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/money-3523131_1280-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/money-3523131_1280-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/money-3523131_1280-20x11.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-172222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 26-year-old opened the company&#8217;s app on her cellphone and was surprised to find $1.1 million instead of the $50 that she had left a few months ago. (Photo: Pixabay)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BOSTON \u2013 For a few minutes, a Boston woman says she was a millionaire.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen Fleming says she received a voicemail from a TD Ameritrade financial consultant Wednesday afternoon that a deposit had been made into her account.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old opened the company&#8217;s app on her cellphone and was surprised to find $1.1 million instead of the $50 that she had left a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming tells The Boston Globe that she immediately thought about quitting her job and paying her student loans. Instead, she called the consultant back and informed them of the mix-up.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming says the money was meant for a woman with the same name who lives in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>She jokes that in her obituary she would like to be referred to as a \u201cone-time millionaire.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2013 For a few minutes, a Boston woman says she was a millionaire. Ellen Fleming says she received a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":172222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[53774,53773,53771,53772],"class_list":["post-172221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-ellen-fleming","tag-instant","tag-millionaire","tag-short-term","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}