{"id":66469,"date":"2022-08-30T11:22:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T08:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66469"},"modified":"2025-09-07T01:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:29:22","slug":"crypto-com-accidentally-transferred-10-5-million-to-a-melbourne-woman-instead-of-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/crypto-com-accidentally-transferred-10-5-million-to-a-melbourne-woman-instead-of-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto.com accidentally transferred $10.5 million to a Melbourne woman instead of $100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2021, the cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com accidentally transferred $10.5 million to a Melbourne woman instead of a $100 refund. The report comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/tickernews.co\/crypto-com-accidentally-transfers-10-5m-to-woman-instead-of-100\/\">Ticker News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The erroneous transaction was discovered more than seven months later as a result of an audit at year-end.<\/p>\n<p>The platform filed suit to recover the funds. During the hearing, a Crypto.com representative explained the error by noting that, in the payment field, instead of the amount of $100, an account number was entered by the employee.<\/p>\n<p>However, before the company attempted to recover the funds, the recipient and her sister bought a luxury mansion with a gym and a cinema in a Melbourne suburb.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/ij3AUMimkGhc_cSVGFcknQUyfljsxgVSOZmGAzHAMon8OwyG9P1x8_P-pjVd-i8rmKmv35SMxa_xAehkPmJmJk8Y0nOZAl5ydxrC_W89BHj0TJyvbt3izvWXs8QDpKVSqesFz0TcQFrvJxciNW0wRvgAbvH0ntfc2ZdLtdZ2JpNg_5zZZOmnDMa1Rw\" alt=\"Crypto.com accidentally transferred $10.5 million to a Melbourne woman\"\/><figcaption>The mansion purchased by the women in Craigieburn. Source: Ticker News.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The judge ordered the sale of the property and the remaining money returned to the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in January, Crypto.com <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/crypto-com-signs-sponsorship-deal-with-the-australian-football-league\">became a sponsor<\/a> of the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s football leagues in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>In March, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/crypto-com-to-sponsor-fifa-world-cup-qatar-2022\">became known<\/a> that the platform would be the official sponsor of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2021, the Crypto.com cryptocurrency platform accidentally transferred $10.5 million to a Melbourne woman instead of a $100 refund. Ticker News reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1452],"class_list":["post-66469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crypto-com"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66471,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66469\/revisions\/66471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}