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Consumer Web site mistakenly posts phone-sex number

2010 U.S. Census

Photo credit: Gordon M. Grant) | 2010 U.S. Census

Talk about getting the wrong number.

A telephone number posted on the state Consumer Protection Board's Web site warning against census scams instead prompted callers to dial a phone-sex chat line.

The board removed the erroneous number from its Web site Monday.

The board, on its Web site and in a news release, mentioned two numbers, the first of which carried the wrong toll-free...

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