The largest telephone company in Malaysia blamed a debt collection agency today for a typo that resulted in a $218 trillion phone bill being sent to a dead man, the Associated Press reported.


Telekom Malaysia said they had nothing to do with the error and that the collection agency has been put on notice. A spokesperson for the phone company told the Associated Press, “It’s clearly not Telekom Malaysia’s fault…we have given a stern warning to the debt collection agency because they sent out the notice.”


The bill was supposed to be for $21.80 instead of the shocking $218 trillion that actually appeared on the statement. Telekom Malaysia said the fault lies in a misplaced decimal point.


The spokesperson for Telekom Malaysia did not reveal the collection agency’s name.


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