A former South African student was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday after she went on a shopping spree with a $1 million university scholarship that she received by mistake.

A South African student who splurged more than $63,000 of $1.1 million she erroneously received was arrested on Tuesday and appeared in court for alleged theft, police said. Sibongile Mani, 28, was arrested by the police's serious commercial crime unit after she was asked to turn herself in, Anelisa Feni, spokeswoman for an elite police…

How will you react if you "accidentally" receive more money than you should have? Imagine you get an alert and see that N300 million has been transferred into your account, or if a client is to pay N7,000 but they accidentally pay N700,000. Will you withdraw it immediately before it is taken away from you?…