The boy from SMK Merpati, Yusrim Karim submitted an app called “Coker Chat” to Google Ideas. He claimed that Google Ideas sent him an e-mail saying his app was great and gave him two choices – to work on a $36 million (about RM132 million) project or sell the idea for $50,000 (about RM183,557) cash. Interestingly, the Form Three student said he chose the money over the million dollar project.

Google Ideas is a subsidiary of Google where people or developers can send their ideas in, and if they like it, they will pay you to further develop the idea. However, readers were skeptical about the news story because the said app, Coker Chat, was not on the Projects section at the Google Ideas webpage. Yusrim said that he received the award back in December last year but only chose to tell his teachers recently; which would have given Google plenty of time to upload the project to the official site.