Man gets reunited with his lost wallet after the finder uses bank transfers to communicate Within an hour, Mr Cameron was reunited with his wallet and he shared his amazement on Twitter with posts that have since gone viral

A cyclist was reunited with his lost wallet after a “Good Samaritan” who found it contacted him via his bank account.

Tim Cameron, 30, who lives in Islington, north London, said he lost his wallet on his way home from work. The project manager went to cancel his cards before seeing four separate transfers to the value of a penny had been made to his bank account – each containing a message.

When combined they read: “Hi, I found your wallet in the road – 07XXXXXXXXX – text or call!”

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Within an hour, Mr Cameron was reunited with his wallet and he shared his amazement on Twitter with posts that have since gone viral.

Reunited with lost funds

He said: “I just lost my wallet on the way home from work. I didn’t have much identifying info in there so a Good Samaritan got in touch with me via my… bank account. 4x transfers of £0.01 each with a reference up to 18 chars.”

Speaking to i afterwards, he said: “I rode my bike home from work. As soon as I parked my bike I realised my wallet was missing so I retraced my steps nearly all the way back.

“When I got back to Shoreditch I was planning to cancel my bank cards when I saw the messages from Simon, so I called him.

“He sent me his address so I rode over. I picked up a bottle of red wine on the way to say thanks.”

Social media reaction

Simon Byford, also 30, turned out to live less than two miles away from Mr Cameron. He was also cycling home from work when he spotted Mr Cameron’s wallet in the road “looking all lost and sad”.

The software engineer said: “I had a look inside to see if there was anything I could use to contact the guy. He had some ID in there. I looked him up on Facebook but there were lots of Tim Camerons.

“I thought to myself there wasn’t anywhere to hand it in as it was in the middle of the road. Then it suddenly struck with me I had transferred some money with a reference before.”

Mr Byford said he was amazed by the public’s reaction on Twitter following Mr Cameron’s tweet, which has gained more than 140,000 likes.

It prompted people to share their own stories of missing possessions. One said: “My son lost his wallet in London and feared the worst, but someone popped it in a postbox and Royal Mail found his address on his driving licence and sent it to us. Nothing was missing; there are more good people about than we think.”