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Google mistakenly sent almost $250,000 to an engineer
Sam Curry, a staff security engineer at cryptocurrency company Yuga Labs, described the confusing payment on his verified Twitter account on Tuesday.
“It’s been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me $249,999 and I still haven’t heard anything about the support ticket,” Curry wrote.
“Is there any way we can get in touch with @Google?”
“It’s fine if you don’t want it back,” he added.
Unfortunately for Curry, it appears that Google is working to get the money back.
Google told CNN in a statement that the erroneous 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 quickly communicated to us by the affected partner and we are working to rectify it.”
