Rich, Users Of This Crypto Platform Lively Buy A Luxury Home

Users of crypto platforms in Australia were sudden, apparently the company sent the wrong money. (Unsplash)

JAKARTA One of the largest crypto trades, Crypto.com was recently reported to have made a mistake in sending 10.5 million US dollars (around Rp. 156 billion) to one of its users. In fact, the company should have sent 100 US dollars (approximately Rp. 1.5 million).

However, Crypto.com only realized its mistake seven months later. The user who received the Rp156 billion was a woman who lived in Melbourne, Australia. The company realized his mistake after conducting an audit on Christmas 2021.

This amount was transferred to one Thevamanogari Manivel in May 2021, when leading crypto exchanges tried to process refunds of only US$100. However, someone mistakenly entered the account number in the payment section. According to the court document, the large amount was accidentally transferred in May 2021 and found seven months later.

But some of the money is gone. Manivel transferred 10.1 million US dollars into a shared account. In February this year, the funds were then taken from two accounts to buy a luxury house with five bedrooms for $1.35 million at Craigieburn as a gift to her sister.

What happened later was a legal feud that benefited Crypto.Com after the judge of the Supreme Court Victoria ordered the luxury house to be sold and the rest of the money returned to the company. If the owner of the house fails to market the property, the judge will appoint a recipient to regulate the sale. They could also face court charges if they ignore the order. The case will return to court in October.

"There's no doubt that if you look at that on your account, you'll know that it shouldn't be there, and the real responsibility is on you to actually call the sender and say look at that it shouldn't have got into my account," said Justin Lawrence of Henderson and Ball Lawyers, quoted by CryptoPotato.

Not the First

Apart from Crypto.com, there are also crypto companies that have mistakenly sent funds to their users, namely BlockFi. The crypto-mining company sent millions of dollars in Bitcoin (BTC) to several user accounts.

At that time BlockFi was holding a promo in March 2021. Applicable users will get bonuses in cryptocurrencies they trade in a certain period. Based on the provisions, users will receive bonuses by the end of May.

However, the company made a mistake in payment. So that some users get bigger rewards than they should get. Shortly after, BlockFi urged its clients to immediately return the excess funds with legal threats.