Melomiri

Trouble from a Mispaid Phone Bill

Language: en

All because of two thousand dollars in phone credit, sent to my number by mistake. It ended with me cornered in my own home, my head split open, needing eight stitches to close the wound. It all started with a phone call at six in the morning on a Sunday. A woman’s voice on the other end of the line was already barking orders. She’d made a mistake topping up her phone credit. Not only had she typed the wrong last digit, but she’d also keyed in two thousand dollars instead of twenty. Now, she was demanding I transfer the money back to her immediately. As for the two grand in credit—enough…

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