Employee checks salary - and finds $3.2m in his account

What would you do if you found $3.2 million had been deposited in your bank account?

Would you (a) withdraw all the money and head to the Maldives? Or (b) tell the authorities you were wrongly paid?

A British engineer chose the honest option, repaying the £2 million mistakenly given to him by his employer in Exeter, the BBC reported.
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The man, who makes turbine blades, was shocked when his £2000 ($3200) monthly salary suddenly increased to £2 million.

He reported the mistake even before his employers, manufacturer Alcoa Howmet, realised the money was gone, drawing praise from them.

"We are obviously very pleased that the person acted in such an honest and immediate way and showed so much integrity," a spokesman for Alcoa Howmet said.

"It is a good example of the quality of people we have at our company. The sum of money involved was a significant amount.

"We are very happy that this employee acted so quickly but we are also looking into the incident."