A teen in Georgia was mistakenly given a $31,000 deposit after a case of mistaken identity by a First Citizens Bank employee. The money was deposited in Steven Fields account by a teller after the rightful owner, Steven Fields, made the deposit. Confused? It appears that the teller didn't verify the account number and only searched by name before depositing the funds.....

According to Online Athens, the victim (Steven Fields) called the bank about the money missing from his account. Tellers looked into the matter and discovered the error, deputies said. However, by that time, the 18-year-old Hull man (Steven Fields) who wrongly received the money had withdrawn $20,000 cash and spent $5,000 using his ATM card, deputies said.



The suspect came back into the Hull branch on March 18 wanting to withdraw more money, but a teller informed him of the mistake and asked him to return the money, deputies said. The teen then insisted the money was from an inheritance.

A deputy went to the teen’s house, where the teen again said he thought the money came from his grandmother’s estate.

The bank gave the teen a March 19th deadline to repay the money, which should be an easy task as he is awaiting the 'inheritance' from his grandmother's estate. The teen has missed that deadline and has not returned to the bank to repay anything as of yet - the bank says that charges will be filed if the teen does not repay the money.

I really wonder what the teen did with all that money in the space of 10 days? Charity?