Huge transaction fee sent by mistake have been return to owner

[Lantind]

In the end, this was not someone's mistake, they were clearly attacked by the bad guys in this market. And it was fortunate because they received their money back, one of the great news today

Yes, it is not a deliberate mistake, but it can happen because he himself is negligent so that it is easily attacked by bad people in the market, hopefully this can be a good lesson for us all so that we are not always negligent.

[xiboothrezi]

This news is quite surprising. Errors in managing transaction costs at fantastic or abnormal prices occur twice. Similar mistakes, with the exact same transaction fees, lead to the assumption that this is intentional. There is an assumption that this is a mode of money laundering.
But I doubt this assumption because the sender cannot determine the miner for "cooperation" in money laundering, it is set automatically in the ethereum blockchain. I agree with the following explanation

~We believe the transaction happened using automatic transfer, since almost 2x times not a human error. If you compare it with manual transaction, there a 1-2x times confirmation did you want to send transaction or not and some preview transaction. Everyone should be aware if they type a wrong amount to be filled when he wan to fill the amount send but unfortunately he set up on the fee column.

It could also be due to human error, the sender is sleepy or is out of focus so that he incorrectly entered the nominal for the fee column and the amount sent. I don't know, which is true.

[Becky666]

So, this was an attack. Thats nice that the money have been returned

This wasn't an attack in my opinion because the fund involved was high, for them to overlooked the sender and helped returned the funds is a welcome development which need recommendations, they have done the right thing which others would have seen as an opportunity to grab their share of the transaction. Maybe the miners saw this as not ignoramus and they were helpful to send back the transaction. We should always double check our transactions before hit confirm button to avoid this mistake.

[bgaf]

It just shows that they are against any form of hacking and they are one with the community to correct those errors I hope future hacking with a similar scheme will de deal with the same action by miners, it's just right that the huge fee should be returned to the rightful owner, the one will suffer this is the owner and his clients, provided that the owner is running a legit business in the industry.

Not all can be the same like them. Miners are in good stand for doing that, but dont expect a lot of them to be like generous to return the funds. Also its a group of miners, some pool have been solo owner with multiple rigs. Yes they can recognized the potential threat of this kind of situation to be used for modus and hidden agenda but what can we do? Decentralized has it own disadvantages.

[pawanjain]

Literally the miners are not liable to return back the money because they just what fee is used but when they know it is an error they returned it but we can't expect this to happen when the exact scenario repeats no matter the error amount if big or small.

Yeah that's quite true but this incident itself is repeated since I have seen this kind of incident taking place earlier as well.
A few years ago somebody had mistakenly sent millions of dollars worth of crptyo as a transaction fee after which the miner had returned it to the address it was sent from. Ofcourse miners are not liable to return the transaction fee but we can see how these miners show humanity and return the huge loads of transaction fees. Obviously we can't expect to see it happening again and again. It is our duty to check all the details thoroughly before making a transaction in crypto.