Kuala Lumpur: A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he received 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.
Source: Sify
I guess they showed him.
I hope the guy gets some money out of them for his time
My thing is why they let the phone bill get up so high and then send a bill?? If i spend about 400 dollars on long distance, they call me to make sure i can pay it by that time or cut my long distance off.. THis was 9-10 years ago.
how could anyone use the phone that much? i doubt nation wide there are that many phone chages accumlated in that period of time.
maybe they phoned like jupiter or something and just let the phone sit off the ringer for awhile
Our gov does not even have this kind of money
wtf
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Poor, pOOR Yahaya Wahab, only if he went to cingular and had the family plan. He could talk when he wanted and how often. No hidden charges.
and maybe he coulda met catherine zeta- jones :) hey, maybe cingular can use him in their next ad!
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Well next time him and his dad should learn to use the phone less then they wouldn't get these sort of high charges! haha poor guy.
Maybe they should look at the small print, "1,000,000 per second local and national calls"
welcome to quala lumpa phone prices, if they were that high why use it?
if my phone bill was tht high my dad would castrate me, no joke
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