Factory worker, Ghazi Adra discovered an abandoned lunch bag on a train that contained $50,000 in American bank notes.
Boyadgis decided to keep the cash while Ghazi handed the cash to police.
Boyadgis decided the cash was probably the proceeds of crime and split the moeny with two friends. He bitterly regrets his actions as police tracked him down through CCTV.
Boyadgis was charged and convicted of theft despite giving the money back. He's now stuck with a criminal record.
On the other hand, Ghazi never considered keeping the money and the police were able to track down a very grateful owner.
Ghazi even donated his $1000 reward to charity.
Putting honesty to the test, Today Tonight placed $70 in a bag with a GPS tracker and left it in a busy Brisbane mall on Queen Street.
After only a few minutes, a man noticed the bag and was on his way to the police.
"It was the way I was brought up, I don't know any different," the man said.
A waiter even rans after the bag owner without going through the bag saying, "I've got two sisters and a mum, the first thing they tell you is you never go through a woman's bag."
However, others aren't so quick to hand the bag over.
A woman sat on the bag and hid it up the back of her jumper before walking off.
It took some convincing before she handed it over saying, "well you got me, yah happy?"
Another woman turned the bag to a solider doing a charity fundraiser.
"I thought it was a little bit odd that somebody would leave a bag just sitting here," the woman said.
"There you go, a very honest woman over here, a lesser person wouldn't have handed it in," the solider said.
It goes to show the majority of Australians are honest after all.
This reporter is on Twitter at @AdamMarshallTT
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