KYOTO – Consumer centers in the Kansai region have received a surge of complaints from people who have received massive bills for calls to adult telephone services they say they did not make, center officials said Wednesday.
Recipients of the bills were charged 19,700 yen each, centers in Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures said.
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