Lots of things to nitpick, but the part where they redistribute the 144 million dollars Tressler had to the audience was
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darkavenger77 — 9 years ago(August 14, 2016 09:02 PM)
They explain earlier that they know the French audience member's bank account number by checking his credit card info that he gives the hotel/box office when he paid for the tickets. They use the same method later I believe.
Impossible. True credit (not debit) cards are not affiliated with bank accounts. Debit cards are affiliated with bank accounts, but the account number is not on the card. To pull this off assuming everyone used a debit card would require weeks of hacking with multiple hackers.
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CptPtnia — 9 years ago(November 04, 2016 02:46 PM)
It felt to me that the tickets may have been distributed via a lottery system, since it was such a hot ticket to get. By doing that, they could pick and choose who was in the audience, and base it on who they could get information on.
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darkavenger77 — 9 years ago(August 14, 2016 08:58 PM)
More plot holes with this scene:
Banks use more than two security questions. They can include a city where you lived, a street where you lived, or any number of other questions. These questions are selected by the client. They'd literally have to do this hundreds of times so as to distribute the money.
How many people know their bank balance to the dollar?
That many cellphones at one location on secure servers (as needed for banking) would crash the system.
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mjohnston-30484 — 9 years ago(August 15, 2016 11:07 PM)
ACTUALLY, they don't need anything more than the audience members bank account numbers and branch numbers. Anyone can DEPOSIT money into your account, it's withdrawing it that is limited to you alone. Trust me, I worked as a property manager for years, depositing tenants rent into landlords accounts with no more information than the account number I was putting it in.
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darkavenger77 — 9 years ago(August 15, 2016 11:39 PM)
ACTUALLY, they don't need anything more than the audience members bank account numbers and branch numbers.
I think you mean account and routing transit numbers, which are specific to institutions, not branches.
This still would not account for how the account numbers were obtained from either debit or credit cards. Had anyone paid by check, then that would be feasible since the account number is on the check. Of course, few people use checks these days.
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mjohnston-30484 — 9 years ago(August 16, 2016 10:22 AM)
There are a lot of discrepancies in the movie, for sure, but I don't think this is really one of them. Yes, transit number, my bad. Either way, that information isn't hard to obtain, really, if you have the right resources (which they imply that they do). Banks aren't too protective with that particular information since with it, funding is a one way street. You can't take money out with that info alone, but that's not what they were trying to do.
For the record, I really liked the movie. I was able to ignore the several discrepancies simply because it WAS well written (sure, you can debate that) and especially performed (much harder to debate). -
Lost_Highway — 9 years ago(August 19, 2016 02:46 PM)
Think about. How did they get the bank account details of the audience.they were all clients of the same insurance company. Once you have hacked the company you get the details.
No need to hack every person individually when they will all be in the same database.