Honest China woman shocked by US$310,000 cash transfers, returns the lot to rightful owner
- Stranger sends money via mobile payment app, incident is viewed 140 million times on Weibo
A woman in China who received multiple money transfers amounting to 2.26 million yuan (US$310,000) from a stranger, and returned all the funds without hesitation, has won praise for her honesty.
The woman, surnamed Wang, said she received a number of phone calls at the end of June from someone she did not know, Henan TV reported.
“That person called me again and again. So I finally picked up the phone,” Wang, who lives in Xuchang, Henan province, central China said.
“A woman cried on the phone, telling me that she got it wrong by transferring 2.26 million yuan to me.”
The stranger, surnamed Tian, said she had sent the money through Alipay, a mobile payment platform.
Wang, who had never used Alipay, suspected it was a scam, but still comforted and calmed Tian, promising she would not hold any of her money if what she claimed was true.