Subscribe to our FREE Newsletter, or Telegram and WhatsApp channels for the latest stories and updates. When Yong Kok Tong checked his account balance on payday in 2004, the number was wrong — but not in the way most people dread. Instead of his expected salary of RM1,744.22, an additional RM15,698 was credited to his account. A bank officer had accidentally added an extra digit during the salary transfer. Yong, who was working at Cosmo’s World …
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