A simple foreclosure coding error from the part of Bank Of America puts an American family on threat. Shantell Curtis who owned a house in Utah, had sold off this house to settle her foreclosure debts. Curtis was under the impression that with this sale, the last mortgage payment of the house would be done. However, the Bank of America did not record the transfer of title to the new owners as a result of a $1 coding error. Due to this Curtis still remained the owner of the house which she had sold off. An aftereffect of this was that the said house was put under the foreclosure procedures and Curtis, even though her debt was settled, was referred to the Credit Bureaus with an obliterated credit score, leaving her to suffer for a house which was no longer hers.

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