Sam Curry, staff security engineer at cryptocurrency company Yuga Labs, explained the mysterious payment. on his verified Twitter account on tuesday.
“It’s been a little over three weeks since Google randomly sent $249,999, and I haven’t heard anything about the support ticket yet,” Curry wrote.
“Is there a way to contact @Google?”
“It’s okay if you don’t want it back,” he added.
Unfortunately for Curry, Google seems to be trying to get their money back.
Google told CNN that the incorrect payment was the result of “human error.”
“Our team recently made a payment to the wrong person as a result of human error,” a Google spokesperson said in an email to CNN. We appreciate it and are working on a fix.”