Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone Bill

[orphe 10+ year member]

Malaysia (AP) - A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he recieved a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday.

Yahaya Wahab said he disconnected his late father's phone line in January after he died and settled the 84 ringgit ($23) bill, the New Straits Times reported.

But Telekom Malaysia later sent him a 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit ($218 trillion) bill for recent telephone calls along with orders to settle within 10 days or face legal proceedings, the newspaper reported.

It wasn't clear whether the bill was a mistake, or if Yahaya's father's phone line was used illegally after after his death.

``If the company wants to seek legal action as mentioned in the letter, I'm ready to face it,'' the paper quoted Yahaya as saying. ``In fact, I can't wait to face it,'' he said.

Yahaya, from northern Kedah state, received a notice from the company's debt-collection agency in early April, the paper said. Yahaya said he nearly fainted when he saw the new bill.

Government-linked Telekom Malaysia Bhd. is the country's largest telecommunications company.

A company official, who declined to be identified as she was not authorized to speak to the media, said Telekom Malaysia was aware of Yahaya's case and would address it. She did not provide further details.

04/10/06 07:16 © Copyright The Associated Press.

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[MastaFlex 10+ year member]

WOW this is nuts i cant see a company letting this happen you know? Kind oif crazy that they would just let someone's bill go that high and do nothing about it. Im guessing someone illegally used it, and if so that is teh gay

 

[haunther]

XXX lines : )

 

[Loudrango112 10+ year member]

Error

 

[Loudrango112 10+ year member]

wrong thread

 

[Expy2K 10+ year member]

It would be almost impossible to rack up that bill in a month..

You would need 10 billion people and a long distance rate or 5 dollars a min, 24 hours a day for 30 days...

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[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

well all he has to do is whore himself out to 109 trillion fat chicks for $2 each.....

 

[denim 5,000+ posts]

what hthe crap?

 

[Crown_amps]

wow i hope he beats that case ! such a huge bill my god

 

[Brock 5,000+ posts]

ummmmm how is that possible?

 

[Brock 5,000+ posts]

ok, since january the phone would have had to been in-use 24 hours a day at $1,484,204,793.03 per minute to equal $218 trillion. and that doesn't include other charges.

 

[swimfreak26 10+ year member]

Our national debt, which is HUGE, is only a fraction of that...not even 5%

 

[Z71999 10+ year member]

i think i had a few of those bills this last summer :-/

 

[Loudrango112 10+ year member]

Our national debt, which is HUGE, is only a fraction of that...not even 5%

our national debt is 8 trillion as of right now.

 

[RandyJ 10+ year member]

our national debt is 8 trillion as of right now.

Tis something similar to whatI was thinking. That includes individual debt though, not just the government.