Yahoo! News - Customer Help Number Is Really Sex Line Fri Mar 21, 7:41 AM ET
ATLANTA - They may expect Southern charm, but some BellSouth Internet customers found the service was a little too friendly when they called a toll-free number listed in the phone book.
The number for a phone sex operation was mistakenly printed in most of the 50 million residential phone books the company sent out in the past year.
In previous years, BellSouth's White Pages listed the number for its Internet services line as 1-800-4DOTNET. In the 2002 books, the company decided to put the corresponding numerals, but botched one number.
The mistake was caught Feb. 13 when a customer complained, BellSouth spokesman David Rogers said this week. Residential phone books sent out since then have been corrected.
The wrong number was listed in the front customer guide section of the White Pages, Rogers said. However, the correct number was still under the appropriate heading in the business listings, he said.
BellSouth had considered buying the phone sex operation's number to avoid confusion with its customers, but abandoned that idea, Rogers said.
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