That's a fluff piece appearing alongside "The Murels of Summer". There is not a single quote from anyone involved in the story except for John. The Toronto Star piece actually did some reporting and quoted a bank official as saying the funds were "wrongly transferred". There are several other details that John embellished.
Those pesky details again, the story changes with every telling.
Thinking he had won the money in a a contest, Bordynuik drove to St Catherines the next day and withdrew another $400. Because he couldn't withdraw any more, he began transferring money from his chequing account to his savings account. ---------------
"I went to a Green Machine instant teller in Welland on Sunday to pull out $5 for gas," said Bordynuik, 20, a student of nuclear physics and computer technology at Brock University in St. Catharines.
"I wound up with $400. I went back again and it gave me another $400. It was letting me pull out cash, cash, cash."
Curious to know just how much the Green Machine thought he had, Bordynuik began punching buttons to transfer $95,000 at a time from his chequing account to his savings account.
"I wound up with $1,191,825 in there," he said yesterday. "I'm keeping the slips as a souvenir of what might have been."
Bordynuik said friends urged him to "get a certified cheque from TD first thing Monday and transfer it to another bank. But I called TD instead to tell them.
"At first they kept saying, 'What's the problem? What's the big deal?' They seemed to think it was my money. Then I went in with their $800 and they were very grateful.
"I'm an honest man but I'm not very happy right now. My chequing account's back to where it was: $6.77 to be exact."
Toronto Dominion official Beverly MacLean said the bank had so far accounted for only $400,000 in wrongly transferred money.
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