Google accidentally transferred a quarter of a million dollars to a blogger and took almost a month to ask for it back

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A security engineer says he waited almost a month to hear from the company after they accidentally sent him $250,000.

The tech giant randomly transferred him $249,999, according to Sam Curry.

Curry said that he received the money and was given a support ticket, but he didn't want to return it.

—Sam Curry (@samwcyo) September 14, 2022

Curry said he didn't spend the money and kept it for when the company asked for it back. He told NPR that he might have to transfer the money to another account.

He didn't think there was a connection between his work and the transfer. As of Thursday, he had the money.

"Our team recently made a payment to the wrong party as a result of human error," a spokesman for the company said. It was communicated to us quickly and we are working to correct it.

NPR was told that the money would be returned by the company.

A similar incident was reported last month when a woman received over $10 million from an exchange. It took the company seven months to spot the error that she had made.

They did not respond to Insider's requests for comment.