In May 2021, Thevamanogari Manivel, a Melbourne woman, contacted a cryptocurrency exchange platform to request a routine refund of $100 Australian dollars.
An employee at the company accidentally entered Manivel's bank account number into the payment amount field instead of the refund amount. Instead of $100, the platform transferred $10,474,143 into her account. More than ten million dollars, sent to an ordinary woman in Melbourne, because of a single data entry error.
But no one noticed... Except Thevamanogari, of course.
For seven months, the company carried on as normal, completely unaware that millions of dollars had vanished from their accounts. It wasn't until a routine audit in December 2021 that anyone spotted the mistake.
By then, the money was long gone.
Manivel had not reported the error. Instead, she got to work. She transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars to her daughter. She split money among six people in her circle. And she bought a four-bedroom, four-bathroom mansion in Craigieburn, a suburb of Melbourne, for $1.35 million Australian dollars.
Then she transferred the mansion into her sister's name. Her sister, Thilagavathy Gangadory, lived in Malaysia, which made the asset considerably harder to reach.
When the company discovered what had happened and launched legal action, they found accounts frozen, money dispersed, and a house registered to someone who wasn't even in the country. Gangadory failed to appear in court, and the Victorian Supreme Court ruled against her by default.
The court ordered the mansion to be sold and the proceeds returned to the company, along with interest. Manivel was ordered to repay the full amount.
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