RETURNING home to realize your wallet hasn’t completed the journey with you gives us all a sinking feeling.

Aside from the worry that somebody might be treating themselves with your contactless cards, there’s also the faff and expense of replacing other items like your driving licence.

It’s always a heartwarming feeling when instead of taking your cards on a shopping spree, a kind stranger instead takes it upon themselves to reunite you with your lost property.

One hero went one step further recently by actually paying their own money into the account of the lost card they had found — and it was all part of an incredibly genius plan.

Tim Cameron in the U.K. took to Twitter to share the tale of how his lost wallet was returned to him in a post which has since had more than 18,000 retweets and 100,000 likes.

He wrote, “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.”

Posting a picture of his banking transactions, it shows four payments of 1 pence (US$0.013) going into his account, each allowing a reference of 18 characters each.

In order, the references read, “Hi I found your. Wallet in the road.” The third provides the stranger’s phone number and the last asks Cameron to text or call to arrange the wallet’s return.

Other Twitter users loved the lengths the stranger had gone to, with one writing, “What an absolute legend, this restores faith that there are still genuine decent people out there, I was starting to give up on it but this is awesome to see.”

People also replied to the post with their own similar life-affirming experiences.

One commented, “Years ago, on a weekend in Brighton, before wife and I got married, lost my wallet on Saturday.

“Had just enough to go out that night. Went to police station Sunday. Wallet handed in by little girl. Left 5 pounds for her with police. Got a thank you note three weeks later.”

Another replied, “I drew money from a cash machine outside Tesco, except I forgot to take it from the machine. Called into Tesco next morning and the money had been handed in. Lovely surprise.”

Maybe we won’t give up on humanity just yet.

(SD-Agencies)