When Chris Reynolds opened his June PayPal e-mail statement, something was off.
The Pennsylvania PR executive’s account balance had swelled to a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800, reports CNN. Money that would make Reynolds — who also sells auto parts on eBay in his spare time — the richest man in the world by a long shot.Rich, as in more than a million times richer than Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim. And he’s worth $67 billion.
‘It’s a curious thing. I don’t know, maybe someone was having fun,’ Reynolds said.
So he logged online, and reality bit back. His account balance read $0. The correct amount.
PayPal admitted the error and offered to donate an unspecified amount of money to a cause of Reynolds’ choice.
‘This is obviously an error and we appreciate that Mr. Reynolds understood this was the case,’ PayPal said in a statement.
Before this incident, the most Reynolds ever made on PayPal was ‘a little over $1,000’ selling a set of vintage BMW tires on eBay.
So what would the would-be quadrillionaire have done with all that cash?
‘I probably would have paid down the national debt,’ he said.
-With New Age input
