The cost of gas has hit many Americans where it really hurts – in the wallet. But one man was recently in for the shock of his life when he was charged $81 billion to fill up his tank.

According to Tri-City Herald, Juan Zamora filled his 1994 Chevy Camaro at a local Conoco station and used a PayPal debit card to pay the $26 in gas.

Zamora says he later got an email saying his debit card was overdrawn and called a customer service representative to see what was wrong. That’s when he got the news that a flaw in the system had mistakenly charged him $81,400,836,908.

“That’s a B, as in billions!” Zamora wrote in an email to the Herald.

He told the paper that it took some time to get customer service to believe his story with the representative asking him at one point if he got the gas. “Like I had to prove that I didn’t pump $81,400,836,908 in gas,” Zamora wrote to the paper.

According to the Lundberg Survey released earlier this week, the average price of unleaded rose 2.6 cents in the past week to $1.94 a gallon. At that price Zamora would have had to pump almost 42 billion gallons into his Camaro.

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