Imagine that one day you are admitted $250,000. It is an amount of money that you did not expect, so you decide to investigate what has happened. After digging a bit in your bank account you discover that it is a payment from Google Llc Edi Pymnts. What would you do in this situation? Sam Curry, a security engineer, faced a scenario like this.
According to NPR, Curry often acts as a bounty hunter for computer bugs, that is, companies pay them to find vulnerabilities in their software. However, the young man found no relationship between his work for Google and the money transferred to his bank account. He then decided to return it immediately, although it was not that easy.
When you want to return the money, but you can’t
Assuming the transfer had been a mistake, Curry wanted to cContact Google for different pathways to return the money, but his attempts were unsuccessful. The days passed and the money remained in his bank account. If he couldn’t return it on time, he explains, he would have to move it to another account or pay the corresponding taxes.
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Ultimately, the young man decided to go public with his problem with a message on Twitter. “It’s been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me $249,999 and I still haven’t heard from the support ticket. Is there a way we can get in touch @Google?” she wrote.
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 any way 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
In addition, at the end of the message he added: “(it’s okay if you don’t want it back…)”. The impact of the tweet, which received hundreds of responseswas possibly the reason that allowed him to glimpse a way out of the problem, although many users suggested that Curry keep the money and spend it on whatever he wanted.
Certainly, this engineer wanted to do the right thing: return the money that did not belong to him, although trying to do so was becoming a headache. If he had acted differently, he would have had to return it later and possibly faced legal problems for misappropriation.
Google acknowledged the situation through a statement from one of its spokesmen and made it clear that he would get his money back: “Our team recently made a wrong payment as a result of human error. We appreciate that the affected person has notified us quickly. We are working to correct it.”
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It should be noted that this is not the only banking incident of this type in recent times. Recently, Crypto.com, a cryptocurrency exchange, transferred $7 million instead of $70 to a woman who decided to spend the money. Now everything seems to indicate that she must repay it with interest.
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