Ever wondered what it felt like to be a lottery winner? Well, it’s an amazing feeling. When you win a lottery you feel on top of the world, especially if the money you won is of a lot of value. I wouldn’t say I’ve won huge amounts in gambling before but I can say I’ve won something small in the past. It felt good and well I should also add that winning a lottery feels so easy to you. You feel like it’s the easiest money that can ever to handed to you and so you do with it as you please.
Crypto.com With A Costly Mistake
Well. One man was one of the luckiest people on this earth when he opened his exchange wallet and found an amount of 50,000 dollars lying there. He didn’t have any coin worth that amount, he hadn’t made any investments which could make him such returns within a short period. But when he saw it in his account, his first instinct was to transfer the money out to his bank account.
It turns out the mistake was from the exchange and as soon as the man saw it he decided to send the funds to his bank account to avoid the exchange from blocking or withholding the funds whenever they found out. Crypto.com is that exchange that made the mistake of sending that much to a user. I don’t know why or how that happened. I say this because in some cases a mistake can happen if they were sending the money as a refund or as a deposit into the users account. But as I said I don’t know how or why that happened. The full story as to what happened is not out there yet.
But then all I know about the side story is that crypto.com mistakenly sent an amount of 50,000 dollars to a user named Justin. Immediately Justin received the funds he sent it to a bank account. Upon realizing the mistake, crypto.com reached out to Justin with a letter to request that he sends the funds back to them. All attempts to reach him proved futile as he refused to reply to any of those letters. Now, crypto.com claims they were trying to give him a chance to return the funds or they could come up with some kind of settlement that could benefit both parties as they are allowed to under the law.
Now when all these methods proved futile, they had nothing else to do than to file the case with a court. Now the court after a hearing granted crypto.com the win and tasked Justin to pay the amount in full back to the exchange and also pay an additional amount which totaled the amount to a little above 76000 dollars.
Justin since losing the case has still not paid and as such crypto.com have had to take the case back to a court of law so Justin can pay the said amount. The court of law initially tasted Justin to pay back this amount in 30 days but it’s been over a year and Justin hasn’t paid. This mistake happened about a year ago.
This Has Happened Before With The Same Exchange
This is not the first time the exchange has made such a mistake. They mistakenly transferred an amount of 10.5 million dollars to a lady's account as they were trying to refund her for a mistake. Upon receiving the said amount the lady also withdrew most of the funds even before crypto.com could realize their mistake.
Before crypto.com could even ask her to return the funds she had already spent the money on her dream things.
What a lot of people don’t realize is that with these centralized exchanges, we give out our information. A lot of users would have done what Justin did and as such they will be easily traced. With these exchanges, you are not free.
Now, because we provide our details it might even be that the account in question doesn’t belong to the one with the KYC verification but then his details were used.
Upon asking a few people they said they would have done the same thing but then it’s just like spending an amount of money which your bank mistakenly put in your account. No matter what you’ll eventually pay for it as they will trace it back. So the best option is to either leave it there till they realize their mistake or report it back to them so they can take it out.
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