A man mistakenly received a payment of nearly $250,000 from Google — even though he had not done any work for the company.
Sam Curry, a security engineer at cryptocurrency firm Yuga Labs, described the baffling payout on his verified Twitter account last week.
“It’s been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me $249,999 and I still haven’t heard anything from the support ticket,” Curry wrote.
“Is there any way for us to contact @Google?”
“It’s okay if you don’t want it back,” he added.
It’s been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me $249,999 and I still haven’t heard anything on the support ticket. Is there anyway we could get in touch @Google?
(it’s OK if you don’t want it back…) pic.twitter.com/t6f7v5erli
— Sam Curry (@samwcyo) September 14, 2022
Unfortunately for Curry, it looks like Google is working to recoup the money.
Google told CNN in a statement that the mistaken payment was the result of “human error”.
“Our team recently made a payment to the wrong party as a result of human error,” a Google spokesperson wrote in an email to CNN .
“We appreciate that it was communicated to us quickly by the impacted partner and we are working to correct it.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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