Man gets pwned by a $218 TRILLION phone bill

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[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone Bill[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Apr 10, 7:16 AM (ET)

 [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]KUALA LUMPUR, 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.[/FONT]
 [FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]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.[/FONT]
 [FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]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.[/FONT]
 [FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]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.[/FONT]
 [FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]"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.[/FONT]
 [FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]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.[/FONT]
 [FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Government-linked Telekom Malaysia Bhd. is the country's largest telecommunications company.[/FONT]
 [FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]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.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060410/D8GT3T6G2.html
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Damn, thats a lot of 900 numbers. :D

My moms friend kept getting a bill from this company for $0.00 she tried everything to get rid of it. Sending $0.00 checks, writing them checks for $.01 cents. Nothing worked she called and talked to everyone. Nothing she did resolved the fact the her credit was going to be ruined by this past due bill for $0.00.
 
[quote name='Strell']Oh man. That is almost as big as my wang.[/QUOTE]

You measure your wang in dollars? Trillions of dollars?
 
[quote name='whoknows']I hope the phone company doesn't seriously expect him to pay it.[/QUOTE]

If I was the phone company I would at least try. :D
 
its a mistake the company just doesnt want to admit it pubicly its not possible for a phone bill to get so high it wouldve been shut off at a normal price.
 
Come on... I can understand the phone company pretending this wasn't a mistake, but to threaten prosecution? They're going to look awfully dumb when it turns out that in order to ring up a bill like that he would have needed to have been connected to a line charging a billion dollars a minute for 3 straight months.
 
ok, this is just out of proportion. i did that math, and even if the phone was talking to some service for 20 years straight, that would still come down to $20,738,203.96 per minute... What the hell charges that kind of money
 
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