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https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101001/od_nm/us_cereal_sexline

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – The telephone number pasted on boxes of cereal named for Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco was supposed to be for a charity -- but mistakenly directed callers to a sex line, the player's agent said on Thursday.

"The wrong number was given by the Feed the Children charity," Ochocinco's agent Robert Bailey said. "It's a shame because it's a good cause."

apparently the phone toll free number was mistakenly listed as an "800" number rather than "888"
 
Reminds me of something I did "back in the days." A woman colleague at work - a big baseball fan - wanted to check the scores (LA was playing a day game) and asked me how to do it. This was about 13 years ago, so the early days of sports on-line. I said, just type in the address for CBS sports or ESPN. When she asked me what the URL was, I didn't know one for sure, so I think I said just try www.espn.net or something like that. Yep, back in those days, porn sites often purchased URL's that were very similar to legitimate sites. You can guess what happened next: She types in the URL and up pops a web site featuring adult videos for sale. I turned about three shades of red and expected to be hauled into HR. Fortunately, she knew it was completely unintentional and thought it was hilarious -as did everyone else in my department.
 
Reminds me of something I did "back in the days." A woman colleague at work - a big baseball fan - wanted to check the scores (LA was playing a day game) and asked me how to do it. This was about 13 years ago, so the early days of sports on-line. I said, just type in the address for CBS sports or ESPN. When she asked me what the URL was, I didn't know one for sure, so I think I said just try www.espn.net or something like that. Yep, back in those days, porn sites often purchased URL's that were very similar to legitimate sites. You can guess what happened next: She types in the URL and up pops a web site featuring adult videos for sale. I turned about three shades of red and expected to be hauled into HR. Fortunately, she knew it was completely unintentional and thought it was hilarious -as did everyone else in my department.

I have heard a few similar stories from the Dawn of teh Innernets. Many of them involved mormon.com, which has since been purchased.
 
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