Sydney man Calum Mawson recently suffered the expensive consequences of what he said was a bizarre corporate error, but which others have called a typing mishap.
It started when Mawson went to pay his A$225 (US$161) Telstra phone bill Friday. Everything seemed normal, but he got a surprise when he saw the receipt. He’d somehow wound up handing over $2,250,623 (US$1,612,526) — just a casual couple of million he didn’t have.
“I was pretty shocked to put it lightly,” he told Mashable Australia. Mawson called Telstra’s customer service staff, who he said assured him the outrageous amount would not go through. Read more…
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