Chris Reynolds, from Pennsylvania opened his June PayPal e-mail statement, and discovered something was off.
The PR executive's account balance had swelled to a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800.
That's $92 QUADRILLION and extra.
Money that would make Reynolds who also sells auto parts on eBay in his spare time -- the richest man in the world by a long shot.
Rich, as in more than a million times more wealthier than Carlos Slim the Mexican and he's worth $67 billion.So he logged online, and reality bit back. His account balance read $0. The correct amount.
PayPal admitted the error and offered to donate an unspecified amount of money to a cause of Reynolds' choice.
"This is obviously an error and we appreciate that Mr. Reynolds understood this was the case," PayPal said in a statement.
Before this incident, the most Reynolds ever made on PayPal was "a little over $1,000" selling a set of vintage BMW tires on eBay.
Money that would make Reynolds who also sells auto parts on eBay in his spare time -- the richest man in the world by a long shot.
Rich, as in more than a million times more wealthier than Carlos Slim the Mexican and he's worth $67 billion.So he logged online, and reality bit back. His account balance read $0. The correct amount.
PayPal admitted the error and offered to donate an unspecified amount of money to a cause of Reynolds' choice.
"This is obviously an error and we appreciate that Mr. Reynolds understood this was the case," PayPal said in a statement.
Before this incident, the most Reynolds ever made on PayPal was "a little over $1,000" selling a set of vintage BMW tires on eBay.
If you were given this amount of money what will you have done with it? Am curious...
For more info: www.cnn.com/2013/07/17/tech/paypal-error
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