When we receive our phone bills every month, perhaps we are looking at a bill to the tune of maybe under $100, or more if you have a family or business to run. However it isn’t very often that we see bills for a whopping $42,427.21 which is what a woman in Connecticut received from Verizon, and no it was not a mistake.Usually bills this high is indicative of a mistake in the system, but in this case all the charges are accounted for. Basically the woman had allowed her friend to use her number, but the deal is that her friend had to pay the bills every month. Unfortunately the friend decided to skip town and let her holding the bag to the tune of a bill over $42,000.
Apparently the reason why the bill managed to get so high was because the friend had placed a ton of calls to overseas numbers including the UK, France, Italy, and Africa. So why didn’t the woman receive any notifications from Verizon about the ever-ballooning bill? Her friend had somehow managed to convince Verizon that he was her husband and that he would be managing the account.
Thankfully Verizon decided that they weren’t going to charge her the full amount and has since written most of it off, save for $4,200. According to Mike Murphy, a spokesman for Verizon, “As the account owner, [Jane] was reminded multiple times that she could remove anyone from her account at anytime for any reason. [Jane] repeatedly declined to remove an individual from her account as was her choice, which we of course respected.”
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