PayPal Error Creates World’s First Quadrillionaire

By  |  July 16, 2013
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A PayPal error created the world’s first quadrillionare on July 15, if only for a short while.

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    RTT News reports that 56-year-old Delaware County, Pennsylvania, man Chris Reynolds’s PayPal account showed a balance of $92 quadrillion due to an error made by the online payment processing company. The error was quickly identified and corrected.

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    For more on Reynolds’s reaction, read the full story here.


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