The mystery deposits started as small as forty-two cents and gradually became larger amounts, and the sender was hidden behind an ambiguous, confusing series of letters and numbers. Lena initially assumed it was just a simple technical glitch made by the bank and figured the amounts would disappear by the next morning. She logged off her app, trying to brush the strange occurrence out of her mind.
However, when she logged back into her online bank portal on Monday afternoon, she saw more random transactions waiting for her. One was for eighty-one cents, another was for a dollar and twelve cents, and a third was for nearly three dollars. They were arriving daily now, bypassing her usual payment platforms entirely.
The steady stream of anonymous, random deposits did not stop, and over the next two weeks, the incoming numbers began to climb significantly. Lena watched in utter confusion as the small amounts grew into twenty dollars, then fifty dollars, and then hundreds of dollars at a time. It was becoming impossible to ignore, and a deep sense of unease began to settle in her stomach.