Oops! Google mistakenly sent an engineer almost US$250k

According to the news outlet, Google told CNN in a statement that the mistaken payment was a result of 'human error.' — Reuters

It’s like hitting the jackpot – by way of Google.

So why give it back? Well, one man was open to do just that.

According to CNN, a man mistakenly received a payment of almost US$250,000 (RM1.14mil) from Google but hadn’t done any work for the company.

The man who was mistakenly paid was Sam Curry, a staff security engineer at cryptocurrency company Yuga Labs. He described the jaw-dropping payment on his verified Twitter account on Tuesday.

“It’s been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me US$249,999 and I still haven’t heard anything on the support ticket,” wrote Curry. “Is there any way we could get in touch @Google? It’s OK if you don’t want it back.”

Turns out, Google does want it back and is working to get back the money, CNN reported.

According to the news outlet, Google told CNN in a statement that the mistaken payment was a result of “human error.”

“Our team recently made a payment to the wrong party as the result of human error,” wrote a Google spokesperson in an email to CNN.

“We appreciate that it was quickly communicated to us by the impacted partner, and we are working to correct it.” – pennlive.com/Tribune News Service