A man was left shocked after receiving a whopping sum of money from a tech company despite never having worked there.
Sam Curry, a staff security engineer at cryptocurrency company Yuga Labs, was left baffled when he was alerted to a payment of $250,000 (£218,000) from Google.
He has now had the life-changing amount of money sitting in his account for over three weeks now.
Even through he says had never done any work for them, Sam took to his Twitter account to describe how he was extremely confused at the amount of money that was sitting in his account.
On the social media site he wrote: “It’s been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me $249,999 and I still haven’t heard anything on the support ticket.
“Is there any way we could get in touch @Google?”
“It’s OK if you don’t want it back,” he comedically added.
Unfortunately for Sam - who thought he got rich quick - Google are now working on getting their money back.
In a statement, Google said that the mistaken payment was the result of a "human error".
A Google spokesperson said: “Our team recently made a payment to the wrong party as the result of human error.
“We appreciate that it was quickly communicated to us by the impacted partner, and we are working to correct it.”
While Sam's luck did not end the way he hoped to, he is not the only one to have received a substantial amount of money into his account.
Last year, a man was mistakenly told he could keep the £110,000 that landed in his account - but was shockingly ordered to pay it back months later.
Russell Alexander, 54, from Sutton, Norfolk was accidentally transferred £110,000 into his account, and consequently was wrongly informed that he could keep it by Barclays.
But following the huge blunder, nine months later, the bank took back the money - along with an extra helping to Russell's own £6,000 cash.
