PayPal accidentally turns US man into multi-quadrillionaire Chris Reynolds, a 56-year-old PR executive from Pennsylvania, discovered his balance for the online payment service had soared to a barely imaginable $92,233,720,368,547,800 (£60,630,193,209,553,728). Unfortunately for Mr Reynolds, when he logged in to his account online, it was empty, his balance reading the correct amount of $0. To add insult to injury, he then received a notice from PayPal asking him to verify his credit card information or the account would be unusable. "It's a curious thing, I don't know, maybe someone was having some fun," he said according to CNN. Had the windfall been genuine, Mr Reynolds said he "probably would have paid down the national debt" and then bought the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team. The biggest sum Mr Reynolds has ever before received on PayPal was "a little over $1,000" - £656 - selling a set of vintage BMW tyres. PayPal acknowledged its mistake and said that it would make a donation of an unspecified sum to the charity of Mr Reynold's choosing. "This is obviously an error and we appreciate that Mr Reynolds understood this was the case," the service said in a statement. It did not disclose how the mistake had occurred, saying it was against company policy to reveal information on customers' accounts.