A Staten Island teenager received $1200 as a reward for returning an envelope filled with money.

Yousry Desooky, found almost $12,000 in cash in the men's room of La Fiesta Restaurant in West New York, New Jersey with a note "For Tahir: $11,875" written on the outside.

UPI reports that the owner of the envelope Guessoom Tahir of New York returned to the restaurant with little hope of getting his money back. However, he was elated to find a note that the 16-year-old and his father had left.

Tahir, a Brooklynite who owns a Manhattan auto repair business, told the Advance. "Thank God it was honest people." The money was repayment of a loan Tahir had made to a friend to buy a car at an auction.

The teen now plans to save the $1200 to be used in the college studies.