Dead man clocks up $218 trillion mobile bill
Link: Deceased Malayan hit with $218 trillion mobile bill | The Register
If you think your monthly mobile bill is high, spare a thought for one poor dead guy in Malaysia, who even though he was dead managed to run up an extraordinarly high phone bill.
A Malaysian man who paid off a $23 wireless bill and disconnected his late father’s cell phone back in January has been stiffed for subsequent charges on the closed account, MSNBC has reported. Telekom Malaysia sent Yahaya Wahab a bill for 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit, or about $218 trillion, for charges to the account, along with a demand from the company’s debt collection agency that he settle the alleged debt within 10 days, or get a lawyer.
Incidently that’s £115,000,829,066,960 - and 27 pence. An awful lot of money in any currency.
Those afterlife roaming charges are horrendous!
Posted by Dan Lane on August 12th, 2007 at 12:54 pm.The Register’s opening line is utterly fabulous
“What otherworldly ectoplasms lurk in the oblivion of such an unholy place as accounts receivable?”
steve
Posted by steve procter on August 13th, 2007 at 9:25 am.actually no, the headline used in the Register’s daily email was the best
“Roaming in the valley of the shadow of death”
I wonder what O2 charge to roam there?
steve
Posted by steve procter on August 13th, 2007 at 9:27 am.You must be slipping Ewan, where’s the joke about Vodafone data charges?
Posted by John on August 13th, 2007 at 10:39 am.Come now, John, I carry a weighty respect for Vodafone. Besides, Steve got in there a moment ago with an o2 reference.
Posted by Ewan on August 13th, 2007 at 10:44 am.