US Governor’s Office gives out phone sex numbers
It happened again. A human error. Imagine you are a customer of Thomas Cook, one of UK’s leading travel company and you call the customer’s hotline for information on a hotel you’ve just booked. But instead of being transferred to the hotel in question, the operator inadvertently sends you to a whole different type of hotline, this time one of the phone sex numbers couples and singles alike call. You wanted hot, well now you got x-rated hot but that one was a human error chalked up in the funny category.
In the US, believe it or not, Obamacare Enrollees were also accidentally told to call phone sex numbers as well. Talk about preventative care! According to a CNS News report, the feds don’t always pay attention when giving people important numbers to call and since 2008, major snafus across the country took place at least 7 times with citizens being giving numbers of phone-sex sites instead!
A year earlier, in 2013, a letter was sent through the mail, you know, that’s the US Post Office by a company asking the readers to contact United Illuminating Co about the Energize Hamden initiative. A phone number was duly listed, only it had a typo error, obviously undetected before the missives were sent out and instead of calling the “illuminated”, folks were in fact calling a chatline and party line line number. I wonder how many new customers the chatline company were able to enlist…
In 2012, the governor of Florida, Rick Scott wanted to give out a state meningitis hotline number to an audience he was addressing, but instead… you guessed it… gave his public the number of a hotline of a different kind. The governor corrected his mistake soon after but not before several people dialed the phone sex number and were greeted by a the voice of a breathy female eager to expand on the virtues of virtual chatting of a different kind.
Mistakes like that happen all the time. In 2010, a Verizon tech support person gave the number of a phonesex chatline to a customer he/she couldn’t help. The story doesn’t say if the Verizon employee was also moonlighting as a phone sex operator thought.