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jpak

(41,758 posts)
Fri Jul 15, 2016, 06:49 PM Jul 2016

Maine EBT phone number sends callers to sex line

Source: Sun Journal

LEWISTON — Calling the phone number on the back of his electronic benefit transfer card to check his balance before taking his son to the grocery store this week, a Lewiston dad heard a perky, come-hither voice answer and figured he'd dialed the wrong number.

Only he hadn't.

In a misprint on some cards, the number to report a lost or stolen card to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services is actually the number of a phone sex line for women.

It's one digit off from the DHHS Customer Service number.

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Read more: http://www.sunjournal.com/news/lewiston-auburn-maine/2016/07/15/maine-ebt-phone-number-sends-callers-sex-line/1959958



accident my ass - more LePage War on the Poor

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Maine EBT phone number sends callers to sex line (Original Post) jpak Jul 2016 OP
Fitting, since LePage wants to screw the poor. hobbit709 Jul 2016 #1
They still have those? 6chars Jul 2016 #2
why is it alway a sex line? there are lots of 800 numbers dembotoz Jul 2016 #3

dembotoz

(16,806 posts)
3. why is it alway a sex line? there are lots of 800 numbers
Sat Jul 16, 2016, 11:45 AM
Jul 2016

misprints are never to lets say general electric customer service
or ordering for dominos
or reservations for best western?

always a sex line

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