AKRON, OH — Gerald Foss, 51, confirmed Tuesday that his employer of eleven years has been depositing his biweekly paychecks into an account ending in 4417, a number he has never recognized, while Foss himself has been living exclusively on a savings account he opened at a credit union in 1998 and assumed was simply “holding up well.”

The error was discovered when Foss, prompted by his wife’s suggestion that they “finally look at things,” sat down with a financial advisor who spent the first twenty minutes in silence before asking whether Foss had any other accounts he was aware of.

“I just figured I was good with money,” said Foss, who has not reviewed a pay stub since the Obama administration. “I never bounced a check. Things seemed fine. I wasn’t asking a lot of questions.”

“Whoever has been receiving Gerald’s income since April 2015 has had an extraordinary eleven years. We wish them well and would like it back.”

HR director Pamela Osei, 44, confirmed that the routing number on Foss’s original 2014 direct deposit form contained a transposition error that cleared payroll review, system audit, and three separate software migrations without triggering a flag. “The account accepted every deposit,” Osei said. “Technically, everything worked perfectly.”

Foss’s financial advisor, Craig Dunleavy, 58, estimated the misdirected deposits total approximately $734,000 before taxes and noted this is, to his knowledge, the largest sum a man has ever simply not noticed was missing.

At press time, Foss had been informed the matter would need to go through payroll to be corrected, and that the correction cycle runs quarterly.