An Oregon man has a bill for more than $2 million from Verizon for a cell phone plan he says he had for just one month.
On Fox & Friends Thursday, news reader Heather Nauert told the story and then showed a clip of a bemused Ken Slusher playing the auto recording from Verizon telling him the amount he owes.
"Total amount due is $2,156,593.64," the voice says, as Slusher smiles.
"We've seen some crazy cell phone bills, but $2 million? That takes the cake," Nauert said.
While humorous, it's also a serious situation because he and his girlfriend are in the process of buying a new house, and with collection agencies on his case about the Verizon bill, Shuler told a local affiliate his mortgage company will not sign off on the loan.
On Tuesday morning, Slusher wired over a down payment on a brand new house. It's a place that he, his girlfriend and their kids can't wait to move into.
But it may not happen because of what Verizon Wireless claims they owe.
While FOX 12's Jamie Wilson listened on, Slusher called an automated phone line to check his Verizon account balance. A voice recording said, "Your total amount due is $2,156,593.64."
Slusher and his girlfriend opened a Verizon account last November and they bought two phones. They only kept the service for one month after noticing major discrepancies on their bills.
Slusher says their first bill should've been for about $120. Instead, it was for $698, plus it showed a previous balance of $451.
Slusher says their next statement asked for just $9.
"The number of errors and the comedy of which they happened is astounding to me," he said.
Slusher says they canceled the service in December and returned the phones to a local Verizon store in January.
They thought it was all cleared up until they started getting notices from several collection agencies demanding upward of $2,000.
Verizon representatives have stated they are looking into the situation.