{"id":145402,"date":"2022-09-01T16:26:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/crypto-platform-accidentally-transfers-10-5m-to-melbourne-woman-now-they-want-it-back"},"modified":"2022-09-01T16:26:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:26:22","slug":"crypto-platform-accidentally-transfers-10-5m-to-melbourne-woman-now-they-want-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/crypto-platform-accidentally-transfers-10-5m-to-melbourne-woman-now-they-want-it-back","title":{"rendered":"Crypto platform accidentally transfers $10.5m to Melbourne woman \u2014 now they want it back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crypto-platform-accidentally-transfers-10-5m-to-melbourne-woman-now-they-want-it-back2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you hit the jackpot-or don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine receiving $10.5 million while expecting a $100 refund to be transferred to your bank account and no one, except you, recognizes it until seven months have passed. That\u2019s recently what happened in Melbourne, Australia when a cryptocurrency company bestowed a fortune to a woman, initially reported by 7NEWS. Back in May 2021, <a href=\"http:\/\/Crypto.com\">Crypto.com<\/a>, one of the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency trading platforms, transferred the amount to Thevamanogari Manivel. Upon receiving the money, Manivel and her sister Thilagavathy Gangadory started spending it like greased lightning.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It took the company seven months to realise its mistake. By the time they did, millions had already been spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you hit the jackpot-or don\u2019t. Imagine receiving $10.5 million while expecting a $100 refund to be transferred to your bank account and no one, except you, recognizes it until seven months have passed. That\u2019s recently what happened in Melbourne, Australia when a cryptocurrency company bestowed a fortune to a woman, initially reported by 7NEWS. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}