FX.co ★ How to gain $92 quadrillion overnight and lose it just as fast

The 56-year-old Pennsylvanian has become the richest man on Earth for just one hour. The fortune of Chris Reynolds, a PR firm owner, was worth more than that of Bill Gates. Earlier this week, Mr Reynolds found out that his PayPal account ending balance was $92,233,720,368,547,800. The record sum of money, which exceeds the GDP value of all the world's countries by 1,500 times, was credited to the simple American's account due to an error in the PayPal system. The joy of the unexpected enrichment was rather short, because the company's employees noticed the failure and brought the money back. The new quadrimillionaire had enough time to share his plans with the journalists, “I'm just feeling like a million bucks. At first, I thought that I owed quadrillions. It was quite a big surprise. I would pay the national debt down first. Then I would buy the Phillies, if I could get a great price.” The Unites States public debt is the highest one - $16.8 trillion, so as it turned out, Chris Reynolds is a real patriot. PayPal decided to smooth the ruffled features and allocate some money to the charity in the name of Mr Reynolds. That is not the first case of its kind, indeed. One month ago, the bank officer fell asleep and pushed onto the number 2 key on the keyboard that automatically transferred €222 million to one of the bank clients account.