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PayPal Makes Man $92 Quadrillion Richer (Temporarily)

SAN JOE (CNET) - Please imagine how giddy Pennsylvania PR executive Chris Reynolds must have felt when PayPal made him $92 quadrillion richer -- $92,233,720,368,547,800 richer to be precise.

At least that's what his June e-mail statement told him.

Perhaps some might already have been considering whether to buy NewsCorp, BMW, and Exxon in the first morning's investment work.

Sadly, Reynolds suspected something might not be as it seemed.

Read the rest of the story from CNET.

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