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3rd October 2022
03:18pm BST

Back in July 2013, Chris Reynolds logged on to his PayPal account to find that he had erroneously been credited with an unfathomable amount of money.
The Pennsylvania PR executive’s account balance had swelled to not just a six or seven figure sum, but a ridiculous 17-figure sum of $92,233,720,368,547,800.
That’s $92 quadrillion - with a bit left over - and meant that he was briefly richest person in the world and the only quadrillionaire on Earth.
In fact, he was more than a million times richer than Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim, who was worth a cool $67 billion.
“It’s a curious thing,” Reynolds, from Delaware County, told CNN. “I don’t know, maybe someone was having fun.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkIvGbDKPxg Previously, the most he had ever made on PayPal was "a little over $1,000" selling a set of vintage BMW tyres on eBay. Quite literally a wheeler dealer. Unfortunately for him, PayPal quickly realised what had happened and corrected the problem.