The CNN reported on July 17, 2013 that a 56-year-old PR executive from Pennsylvania, Chris Reynolds was accidentally credited with a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800 in his Paypal account .
Reynolds opened his email statement or the month of June and saw the "a number with a lot of digits” and was shocked.
He thought for a moment that maybe he owed someone $92 quadrillion and so posted the incident on Facebook.
When his friends pointed out that it was "Credit" but not "Debit", he logged online to check his account balance. It showed him the correct amount which read $0.
A glitch in Paypal had caused the error but the amount in reality would have made Reynolds a million times richer than Bill Gates who is worth $72 billion or Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim whose worth is $67 billion.
Reynolds had at the most made a little over $1,000 on PayPal by selling a set of vintage BMW tires on eBay.
PayPal admitted the mistake as an error and offered to donate money to a cause of Reynolds' choice. In their statement, PayPal said that they appreciate that Mr. Reynolds understood the error.
On asking what he would have done with a quadrillion, Reynolds said that he would have probably paid down the national debt.
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