A Woman Stole a SIM Card and Racked Up $200,000 Worth of Data Fees

Kylie Monks , a 33 - year - quondam Tasmanian womanhood , has been jailed for stealing a SIM card and using the the pits out of it . How intense was it ? Over a 3 - month period , she racked up $ 193,187.43 ( AUD ) worth of datum fee . Monks , to her mention , said she only used the SIM card to find out Facebook and download a dozen movies .

That ’s insane ! The Register enunciate she stole the 3 G SIM bill of fare from an electrical beat and plugged it into her laptop to enjoy destitute internet . The SIM card was obviously only meant to institutionalize bits of data about the meter to the power companionship so you could imagine their jolt when the 3 - calendar month bill turned out to be $ 200,000 . Thelonious Monk was halt and she ’s going to have to serve 6 month in jail for her larceny .

I take a look at Telstra ’s data rates and if you ’re a wage - as - you - go customer — basically their worst rate available — it ’s $ 2 per megabyte . That would mean she downloaded 100,000 megabytes or around 97 gigabytes of data in a three - calendar month span . That ’s a plenty of Facebooking , let me tell ya . [ The Mercury.auviaThe Register ]

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