When a woman recently found a lump in the cushion of a chair she had received for free on Craigslist, she thought it was a heating pad someone with a bad back had stuffed into it.

But when Vicky Umodu from Colton in California unzipped the cover, she pulled out a dozen envelopes of cold, hard cash.

She yelled "we've got to call the guy" to her son, and quickly returned every cent-saying it never once occurred to her to keep even a dollar.

An ABC news local affiliate reached out to the vendor and his family, who said that they were getting rid of the chair and a matching sofa after the death of a loved one.

The money totaled $36,000, which the family believes was hidden away by the deceased as part of a saving strategy, and that there could be more dough in unseen places.

Mrs. Umodu was given $2,200 as a reward for her good deed, money she'll use to buy a new refrigerator.

"God has been kind to me and my children," Umodu told reporters. "They are all alive and well, I have three beautiful grandchildren, so what can I ever ask of God?

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