Man spends £91,000 on sex chat lines

[djfaulkner]

Read this in the paper this morning.

Someone runs up a massive phone bill ringing sex lines and is now trying to get out of paying.

He previously got a bill for £19,000 and his phone barred. He then got another SIM card and ran up £71,000
Vodafone have already reduced his bill £29,000 but he is refusing to pay it.

Sun:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4877828/...

As its PH
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305358/Vo...

[greygoose]

I can't really see why Vodafone reduced his bill at all, he should be made to pay the whole lot and perhaps learn something from his stupidity.

[pad58]

Lonelyness makes you do stupid things, sad.

[Funk]

Has to be fake.

If not, he embodies everything that is wrong with society these days. I hope Vodafone pursue him for every penny.

[Jasandjules]

What the?

[Adrian W]

what an idiot, but you would have thought Vodaphone had some sort of alarm for things like this

[grumbledoak]

Vodaphone will probably write it off as a PR cost. If so, I hope Kevin Waldrum, 45, retains some internet infamy as one sad old fool.

£91k? You could actually rent a lot of quality time with a very attractive companion for that sort of cash. That I could understand.

[g3org3y]

Article said:

“I admit it’s partly my fault but the line should have gone dead earlier.

Notsureifseriousjoker.jpeg

Especially in view of:

Article said:

- Continued to call after receiving first bill of £19,333.63 from Vodafone- Company barred his SIM but he obtained a new one to continue calling

Edited by g3org3y on Monday 8th April 08:47

[Type R Tom]

Quick bit of maths, that's about 10 hours a day for 5 months, aassuming £1 per minute. No wonder he's out of work!

[Type R Tom]

Type R Tom said:

Quick bit of maths, that's about 10 hours a day for 5 months, aassuming £1 per minute. No wonder he's out of work!

Finally got on the site, he did in 3! He must own a velvet clove or something!

[mondeoman]

sensationalist newspaper said:

he spent 22 hours a day on the phone...

o'reilly??

[greygoose]

mondeoman said:

sensationalist newspaper said:

he spent 22 hours a day on the phone...

o'reilly??

On the plus side he's probably in the Guinness book of records for masturbation.

[muffinmenace]

[Halb]

Adrian W said:

what an idiot, but you would have thought Vodaphone had some sort of alarm for things like this

Indeed!


wonders if I should get a vodafone connexion.

[Deva Link]

grumbledoak said:

£91k? You could actually rent a lot of quality time with a very attractive companion for that sort of cash. That I could understand.

Well, except that he hasn't actually got £91K.

It is pretty incredible that Vodafone's systems allowed the bills to within a million miles of that level.

I bet the girls he was calling didn't look like the one in the Mail either!

[PV7998]

Adrian W said:

what an idiot, but you would have thought Vodaphone had some sort of alarm for things like this

Agree completely......the bloke is a spectacular bellend but I was under the impression that usage like this sets off alarm bells with the companies involved......in fact I know that in some cases it does, as a friend of mine (yes really) got a call from the phone company about his son downloading music when the bill got to about £400 over a weekend.
Even though this bloke went out and got another SIM card he was still able to run up £70k+ bill, so where were the alarm bells there?

[bigandclever]

berk said:

They haven't even called me to tell me that the charges were being reduced.

Your line was probably engaged, you daft uber-onanist.

[Happy82]

£2k would buy a people carrier, and a fox mask would have cost £2 from a fancy dress shop. Would be far cheaper than what he did and at least he could have had the opportunity to watch Terry getting tugged off by two fat birds or the chance to shag a woman in a badger mask who was most definitely a man a few years previous.

Dogging Tales was an eye opener

[Snowboy]

Guesswork...
The premium numbers aren't charged by the phonecompany.

Instead, the phone company just deals with the phonecall, the premium company adds on the premium and sends the bill to the phone company.
It's likely/possible that vodaphone only kbew about the big bill at the end of the month when the invoices were recieved.

I'm also guessing some of his calls were to lines that cost £4-5+ a minute.

Stupid git though.
He should be forced to pay.
And/or section as an addict who needs phscological help.

[WCZ]

I think Vodafone should have alerted him when he went past the £500 mark and at £1k+ again contacted him.