Twenty Quid

I downloaded my latest bank statement today and as usual did a quick bank reconciliation using GnuCash and I was £20 out, in my favour. Curious. Turns out that on 27th November someone transferred £20 to my current account.

I had no idea who it was though. It clearly wasn't a mistake as the reference was "OLDHAM PAUL MR". So I phoned the bank and the nice young lady looked it up. All she could tell me was that it came from sort code 60-00-01, account number 39418618 and that 60-00-01 is Nat West's City branch. She suggested I not worry about it.

I did do a Google search on that account code but to no avail (lots of matches just on the sort code mind you). In the end I actually phoned Nat West head office (an 0800 number or else I wouldn't have bothered).

They were really quite rude and said there was no way they could reveal who the account belonged to.

So I thanked them for their "help" and moved on.

So thank you someone for £20, and perhaps by posting their bank account details here a future Google searcher may find a solution and add a comment to this article.