Google accidentally sent users money and decided not to take it back

Many users report that Google Pay has accidentally deposited between $10 and $1000 into their accounts. Android researcher Mishaal Rahman ran into the bug and shared the details on Twitter. Writes about it Ars Technica.

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The money came through the Google Pay "reward" program. As with credit cards, you should usually be getting a few dollars for various promotions, but nothing like that. Numerous screenshots show that users are receiving a bunch of "rewards" for what the post calls the "Google Pay Remittance Experience Trial".

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Dogfooding in technical language means "internal beta testing of pre-release software", so if a message like this was ever to come out, it should have only been sent to Google employees or some testing partners. Many regular users received multiple copies of this payout message.

Users who were given surprise money later received an email from the Google Pay team detailing "an error that resulted in money being unintentionally credited to the account."

The message begins: “You received this email because your Google Pay account has inadvertently received a cash payment. The issue has since been resolved and, if possible, the money has been returned.”

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For those who have withdrawn, spent, or transferred money, Google clarified: “If we were unable to cancel the loan, the money is yours. No further action is required."

You understood everything correctly: if you spent or transferred money, they will remain with you. Google doesn't want to waste its time chasing individual users.

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