Would you give it back?
It turns out Curry's hunch was right. Google indeed meant to give someone else a quarter million bones, but accidentally wired the payment to the wrong person. Kind of like sending a text to the wrong number — except, in this case, it was a massive pile of cash.
"Our team recently made a payment to the wrong party as the result of human error," a Google spokesperson told. "We appreciate that it was quickly communicated to us by the impacted partner, and we are working to correct it."Now, before any Google users out there get their hopes up, Curry wasn't a total rando that the search engine plucked from its many millions of site surfers.
In other words, Curry was somewhere in the company's payroll system, and some unlucky staffer just hit the wrong name. Anyway, props to the engineer for alerting Google to the error, and our sympathies to whoever made the mistake on Google's end. We're sure this probably doesn't happen that often, given Google's size and sophistication. Or at the very least, pretty sure it doesn't.
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