Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-108.215.65.198-20140425033313/@comment-65.184.159.247-20150520113043

Almost the exact same thing happened to me. Same total/lifetime bounty statistic, no actual bounty, and in the Rift. By checking old saves, all I had done between a save file with no bounty and the 1040 gold bounty was turn in a bunch of quests, including Dampened Spirits and Supply and Demand (becoming Thane of the Rift as a result). Perhaps it is a (rare) bug with one of those quests. I might be able to narrow this down further if anybody still cares about this.