Neglify said:

Darth Id said:

a couple kids actually called 1-800-SPANK-ME and were redirected to a 900 number phone sex line and racked up over $500 in charges.

Sorry but that does not happen. You, sir, have been had.

Who told you that little urban legend? Was it Ben?

Seattle Times article from 1997: http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19971019&slug=2566882

I can't tell if you're making some meta-joke about leg-pulling, or if you just pasted a botched link, but I just get the search function for the Seattle Times (aka, the "Lying Ol' Ben" of Journalism).