Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives and it won’t be wrong to say that the apps which we use for various purposes have made our lives quite easy. There are a huge number of apps which can be used for different purposes such as booking movie tickets, train tickets or flight tickets, ordering food, booking cabs or for making financial transactions.
Google Pay is one of the most used financial apps and recently it brought smiles on many faces of the users based in USA as it credited USD 1,072 (Rs. 88K approx.) in their accounts by mistake. Some online users claimed that GPay credited their bank accounts by an amount ranging from $10 to $1000 and all this happened due to a technical glitch.
When the financial app noticed the mistake, it reversed the transactions wherever it was possible and the transactions it was not able to reverse, it left the money for the users to spend.
A Twitter user Mishaal Rahman took to the micro-blogging site Twitter and told his followers about the technical glitch as he posted, “Uhhh, Google Pay seems to just be randomly giving users free money right now. I just opened Google Pay and saw that I have $46 in ‘rewards’ that I got ‘for dogfooding the Google Pay Remittance experience.’ What.”
Later on, Google Pay also sent an email to the users in whose accounts the amount was credited and the email read, “You received this email because an unintended cash credit was deposited to your Google Pay account… where possible, the credit has been reversed. If we were not able to reverse the credit, the money is yours to keep. No further action is necessary.”
The CEO of Twitter, Elon Musk also responded to this news with, “Noice”.
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