Florida woman who withdrew her $1,200 stimulus check is stunned to find an extra $8.5 million deposited in her bank account

A woman in Florida was left stunned when she tried to withdraw her stimulus check from an ATM and discovered an additional $8.5 million had been deposited into her account.

Diana Lagulli was taking cash out at a Wawa convenience store in Sanford on Thursday when she glanced down at her receipt to find her remaining bank balance displaying a few extra zeros than she'd expected.

Confused and shocked at the multi-million dollar sum written in bold ink at the bottom of the paper, Lagulli said she called her son laughing, telling him: ‘Your parents are millionaires!'

But her reverie didn’t last long. After phoning her bank to inquire about the jackpot sum, Lagulli learned the $8.5 million deposit had been the result of a malfunction, rather than good fortune. 

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Diana Lagulli was taking cash out at a Wawa convenience store in Sanford on Thursday when she glanced down at her receipt to find her remaining bank balance displaying a few extra zeros than she'd expected

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Confused and shocked at the multi-million dollar sum written in bold ink at the bottom of the paper, Lagulli said she called her son laughing, telling him: ‘Your parents are millionaires!'

‘That fairytale went out the window,’ Lagulli told WOFL, adding that she'd already imagined paying off her home and car with the eye-watering funds.  

Within 12 hours Lagulli received a text alert notifying her that her bank balance had been reduced back down to normal.

But though she was no longer a millionaire, the retiree decided to take the surprise windfall as inspiration, later using some of her stimulus check to buy groceries for a nurse she'd seen stocking up on supplies in Walmart.

‘It made me very happy to do that even though I don’t have $8 million,’ Lagulli said. ‘You should have seen her face’.

Lagulli wasn’t the only person to receive a shock at the ATM this week. On Tuesday, a similar incident happened to volunteer firefighter Charles Calvin in Indiana.

Calvin was withdrawing his $1,700 stimulus payment when he found $8.2 million sitting in his account. 

'I went to the ATM at the Family Express and once I withdrew $200 out of my account I looked at the available balance still left in my account,' he said.

At first, he through the machine had thrown up some sort of error so he ran his card again but the exact same amount was shown.  

However, much like Lagulli, the good fortune was short-lived. By the time he called the bank to question the amount, the seven-digit sum had already disappeared.

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Charles Calvin, a volunteer firefighter, was expecting a stimulus payment for $1,700 

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Upon checking his bank account he found there was a payment for $8million

'It kind of sucks,' he said. 'You go from being a millionaire one second then back to being broke again. But hey, once you're poor you don't have anywhere else to go but up.'

Calvin is not sure if the readout was an error made by the federal government or just the ATM he used. Either way, he is not complaining as he received what he was legitimately entitled to.

The government said eligible Americans should receive their stimulus deposits no later than April 15. Those without direct deposit capabilities will receive a check in the mail.