Google accidentally sent a quarter of a million dollars to a blogger and security engineer, who says he waited almost a month to hear back from the company.
Sam Curry
tweeted on Wednesday that the tech giant had "randomly" transferred him $249,999 alongside a screenshot.
"It's OK if you don't want it back," Curry said in the tweet, adding that it had been over three weeks since he received the money and was given a support ticket when he contacted Google.
Curry said he did not spend the money and kept it for when the company would inevitably ask for it back. To avoid paying tax on the money, he may need to transfer it to another account, he told
NPR news.
The security engineer, who gets paid to look for vulnerabilities in companies' software, told NPR news that he carries out "bug bounty hunting" work for organizations including Google.
However, he did not see a connection between his work for Google and the transfer. He still had the money as of Thursday.
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