Man Hit With $218 Trillion Phone Bill

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (April 10) - 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 $23 bill, the New Straits Times reported.

But Telekom Malaysia later sent him a $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.

Jesus f***ing Christ

Wow, that happened to my grandma once. She was charged with a Phone bill of 100,000 dollars...

For the internet cost, Even though we only had it for a month. x.x

hdfaksfhkasdf that's like 20 times the US's GDP

holy **** that guy is screwed

*Bush attacks Malaysia*

Does Bill Gates even have that much money?

Looks like E.T.'s been using someone's phone!

I heard about this earlier today. So awesome.

Nobody owns that kind of money D:

Bad april fools maybe? <:D

That's crazy.

Maybe it is from one of those fake newspaper things, like how that guy asked to get... something from this one singer or something

anyways, i think that no single person owns that much money or never has, the richest person ever was John D. Rockefeller
His money back when he was alive is more than bill gates has when convereted to its worth today, i forgot the number and the stupid guinness book website is skrewed up since i last visited so i dont wanna hafta search google or whatever
he had less than a trillion dollars anyways i am pretty sure

This post has been edited by glacko2021 on Apr 11 2006, 05:27 PM

Then get him to pay it! (I'm sorry it was too tempting...)

I'd face the law too

Well, there really is no reasonable alternative xD

$218,000,000,000,000

compared to

$50,000,000,000

no not really

Man, from what I hear this dude was pimpin' with a bunch of women in another country. On the phone that is.

I saw that before on msn a couple of days ago. I thought it was funny. XD

I remember when my brother first got the internet, he ran up a £800.00 phone line in one month from internet sex dialers, he had them running non stop in the background. Stupid idiot. The internet service managed to half the bill though somhow, and my Mom had to pay the rest.

Jesus Christ. That guy is screwed.

This post has been edited by StopNSwap on Apr 12 2006, 07:02 AM

I'd write them a check that will obviously bounce. :p