Google Accidentally Paid Rs 80,000 To Some Users: Were You One Of Them?

Some Google Pay users were recently fined by Google due to a glitch in the mobile payments app. Many of those lucky ones shared their excitement via Reddit, claiming to have received funds of up to Rs 88,000 in their Google Pay accounts.

Some of them also wanted to check if they received money from their friends or family, but found out that Google had a glitch that mistakenly sent money to Google Pay users, and interestingly, some of them were Google Pay users. Was using Pixel phone.

The details of the glitch were shared by a tipster who received $46 in rewards in his Google Pay account, which he claims was part of “dogfooding the Google Pay remittance experience”. This is part of Google’s testing process, in which the company uses its own employees to test unreleased features before rolling them out to the public.

These employees are then paid to test features that come as rewards and in this case it appears these features were linked to Google Pay. This mess got the money to employees and people outside Google’s internal network.

Some of these users have also received an email from Google informing them about the glitch, due to which they received money by mistake. While it is likely that some non-Pixel phone users may have received it as well, given these rewards are given to employees, who in most cases will be using a Pixel phone, it is likely that most of these incidental rewards are paid to Pixel users.

Google has told these users that they will try to refund the payment received. But it is possible that some of these users may not comply with the company and may decide to keep the rewards for themselves. After all, some of these users have received prizes of up to $1000 (roughly Rs. 82,000), which is not a small amount to withdraw and people will claim that their luck has given them this windfall.

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