Woman Steals SIM Card, Spends $193,000

[tacoslave]

It was obviously used to take out the combine.

 

[oneblackened]

[citation][nom]tacoslave[/nom]It was obviously used to take out the combine.[/citation]
Oh good, I wasn't the only one who thought of that.

 

[jednx01]

Glad to know that I wasn't the only person thinking about half life when I saw this. haha

 

[Guest]

It's Aussieland. Internet bandwidth is super expensive there. Prolly cuz they have to tunnel to China to connect to their cables for connectivity

Seriously though, their internet bandwidth is stupidly expensive and slow.

 

[memadmax]

She obviously didn't use TPB.......

 

[someguynamedmatt]

[citation][nom]oneblackened[/nom]Am I the only one who thought of Half-Life?[/citation]
Nope. You're not alone...
Greatest game series ever created.

 

[NuclearShadow]

She was burning and sending the pirated movies to him. Certainly the address given even if not his is a lead to finding him as well.

 

[eddieroolz]

Wonder how it went for 4 months being unnoticed? Or do the Aussies bill subscribers only once per 4 months?

 

[fir_ser]

The law doesn't protect fools.

 

[Guest]

so was it mr. freeman or the sneaky G man?

 

[Zingam]

She has used time machine or something? Teleporter??? WTF?

 

[happyballz]

How the fuc% do even you charge someone almost $200K for broadband!? HELLOOO Telecom company!!!/??? If you see the customer using anything over $100 bux maybe you should have a filter and call them to verify that everything is OK? I am just purely disgusted with stories like this. Must have been "cream of the crop/Ultra premium/tripple filtered" bandwidth made out of unobtanium. NOT!

 

[jkflipflop98]

You'll never find the Free Man. He has been taken from us. By the one they all work for. The one with the suit and tie.

Clearly we see this in the Vortessence.

 

[gm0n3y]

Reminds me of when I was a teenager and my parent's dialup connection changed from unlimited to 1GB/month without being notified by the provider. We had a dedicated phone line so our internet was on 24/7 and this was back in the kazaa / early bittorent days. So of course I downloaded somewhere around 15GB and we got a bill for ~$1500. We basically just told them to piss off and only paid our regular fee. On the plus side this made my parents see the light and sign up for cable internet.

 

[beayn]

Hmm.. I just had a smartmeter installed (I'm in Ontario). I thought it used that ethernet over electrical wires tech... If it uses cellular, I think I should have been informed! Cancer causing crap!

 

[freggo]

If you charge typically say $500/month on various things on your Credit card and out of a sudden it jumps up to 10s of thousand VISA etc will block the card and contact you to check if something funny is going on. That's common sense and the 'vendor' of the 193k should have never allowed to process the orders. Than again, my T-Mobile cell costs $50/month and TWICE I got charged -autopay!!- $5,000 because their computer misplaced the decimal point !
Neither T-Mobile nor my bank saw anything unusual about a jump from a $50 to $5,000 cell phone bill and processed the autopay. Go figure