Surprise! DirecTV sends customer $184,000 bill

DirecTV dished out a $184,530.67 satellite television bill to an Ohio woman, and no, it wasn't for a new HBO/Showtime package. Angela Mixon-Smith, an Army veteran, recently agreed to bundle her DirecTV service with a new AT&T cell phone plan, and has been receiving strange service bills ever since.

Mixon-Smith said she opened the bill Monday and began to feel ill. According to KTLA:

I mean, my chest got heavy, the Ohio, woman told KTLA sister station WJW in Cleveland on Wednesday. I had to get some water. I don't drink. I was ready to drink." ...

I know I don't have that kind of money, she said. And, since April? There's no way.

AT&T, which merged with DirecTV in 2015, apologized for the error and recredited Mixon-Smiths account. The spokesperson for AT&T who issued the apology did not give an explanation to KTLA for the mistake.

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