French Woman Receives ‘Shock Of Her Life’ From $15.5 Quadrillion Phone Bill!

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‘I almost had a cardiac arrest’: French woman stunned after phone company sends her a final bill... of £10 trillion
By SARA MALM
PUBLISHED: 14:57 GMT, 11 October 2012 | UPDATED: 06:41 GMT, 12 October 2012

A French woman had the shock of a life time when she received a phone bill of £10 trillion – nearly 6000 times the country’s GDP.
Solenne San Jose nearly fainted when she saw exactly how much she was meant to pay for closing her account.
Despite the outlandish sum, Ms San Jose, from Pessac, Bordeaux, struggled to convince the company that the figure was a mistake and was told she had to pay up.

Shock letter: Solenne San Jose was bowled over when she received a bill for £10 trillion from her phone company (file photo)

At the bottom of the bill, Bouygues Telecom informed her €11,721,000,000,000,000 would be taken out of her account.

‘I almost had a cardiac arrest! There were so many zeros I could not even work out how much it was’, she told French newspaper Sud Ouest.

She soon came to her senses, realising that it was a mistake and called her phone company to report the faulty charge. To her surprise, operators at Bouygues Telecom said they could not amend the charges and that she was liable for the sum, insisting it would automatically be withdrawn from her bank account.
‘When I explained that it was obviously a mistake, they replied that these amounts were calculated automatically and withdrawals would begin.
‘One operator told me: "It's automatic, there is nothing I can do.” Another simply informed me that I would be contacted to set up a re-payment plan of installments.'
The astonishing amount is 5872 times France’s annual GDP and would have taken generations to repay, Ms San Jose said.
It took a series of phone calls before Bouygues Telecom admitted defeat, giving her the real amount she owed them, the much more reasonable €117.21.

Bouygues Telecom's Director of Customer Relations, Alain Angerame, yesterday apologised for the mistake blaming a printing error.

Source 1: Woman receives quadrillion-dollar phone bill or £10 trillion says she 'almost had a cardiac arrest' | Mail Online

Source 2: http://www.economywatch.com/in-the-news/french-women-receives-shock-of-her-life-from-155-quadrillion-phone-bill.12-10.html

[machinecult]

It'd be even more hilarious if she went to the billing and actually paid the 15 Quadrillion.

[reptoid]

I thought it was awesome that the best solution customer service could come up with was an installment plan!

Can you imagine... That will be one million euros per month for the next {insert mind-boggling number here} years... plus interest madam. Have a nice day!

[Dorothea]

You just have to laugh, otherwise you'd cry...comedy of errors man ni oi.

[UrbaNo]

yeah, kahinumdom noon ko anang commercial sa sun ANTI shock bills. lol

[crossramz]

I wonder if she wouldn't file a case.. And now that's easy money making.

[aj_se7en]

ka grabe nalang man jud sa mga customer reps, wala nalang jud nka investigate... ka klaro anang naay sayop nya ignan raka og "there is nothing i can do"... tsk tsk.

[marcopolo]

Grabeha sad ani nga phone bill oi subra oa sa kita sa iyang nasud hehehe ambungan rba c Solenne ai

[dockie]

she could've ask for courtesy credits ) AMERICANS are good with it ... taga e lgn silag gamayng perwisyo patyon kag reklamo... hehehe

[700club]

Lamia gud etukud anig phone company hehehe