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Are you serious? This isn't a question of morality, it's a question of keeping your bloody job and as one of the many currently unemployed on this site, I would strongly counsel your friend to go to his/her employer immediately and explain the error.
it doesn't sound enough to bother with, give it back. If 1.6m turned up though, I'd have a long think about making a break for it.
Bill, OOOrange, Geetee, Samurai, go back and read the thread properly, and Geetee, loosten up a bit mate! 😀
Oh, and although this really did happen, it was a bit of a troll thread.... And I got a few of you hook, line & sinker... 😉
It's happened to me before and I told the company straight away. Rather than going to the hassle of paying it back it was decided to treat it as a pre-payment and off-set future expenses against it until it was cleared.