PayPal accidentally credits man $92 quadrillion
Chris Reynolds' PayPal account was erroneously credited $92,233,720,368,547,800.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Pennsylvania man gets a PayPal statement saying his account contains $92,233,720,368,547,800
- Man, Chris Reynolds, later logs online to find his balance is actually $0
- PayPal admits the error and offers to make donation to charity
- Reynolds says he would have paid down the national debt
The Pennsylvania PR executive's account balance had swelled to a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800.
That's $92 QUADRILLION (and change).
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.
Oh, if only.
"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.
CNN's Erinn Cawthon and Jesse Solomon contributed to this report.
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