A woman found approximately £28,000 stuffed in a sofa she bought off Craigslist.
Vicky Umodu from Colton, California, discovered the wads of cash inside one of the cushions after finding the set of sofas during a hunt for furniture to fill her new home, reported ABC7.
Umodo was delighted to find them.
"I scrolled down and saw free items," said Umodu.
"So, I clicked on it, and the first thing I came up with was this family that wanted to give a sofa, and everything in their bedroom set. I said maybe it's a gimmick, so I called them."
It was true - unaware of the furniture's concealed cargo of cash, the sellers were giving the sofas away for free following the death of a loved one and the clearing out of their house.
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"I just moved in, and I don't have anything in my house," Umodo explained. "I was so excited, so we picked it up and brought it in."
But not long after she returned home with the furniture, Umodo noticed there was something odd inside one of the cushions.
"I thought it was a heat pad," she said. But when she unzipped the cushion, Umodo found several large bank deposit envelopes jam-packed with cash, much of which appeared to be in the form of $100 bills.
"I was just telling my son, come, come, come! I was screaming, this is money! I need to call the guy," Umodo said. Without a second thought, she decided to return all the money to the family.
"God has been kind to me and my children, they're all alive and well," she said. "I have three beautiful grandchildren, so what can I ever ask from God?"
As a gesture of goodwill, the family gifted Umodo roughly £2,000 to buy a new refrigerator.
The family said that they had discovered other quantities of cash throughout the rest of the house, but only a few hundred pounds. They are unsure why the deceased relative hid so much money in and around the house.
