4.19.2011

So if you dial the wrong number you might get, what, the wrong number?

AP IMPACT: Porn company is amassing 1-800 numbers - Yahoo! News

Records obtained by The Associated Press show that over the past 13 years, a little-known Philadelphia company called PrimeTel Communications has quietly gained control over nearly a quarter of all the 1-800 numbers in the U.S. and Canada...

And many, if not most, of those 1.7 million numbers appear to be used for one thing: redirecting callers to a phone-sex service.

 

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