Thousands of idiots still misdial American Idol's phone numbers

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Years ago, deceptive marketers took advantage of idiots who dialed the wrong phone numbers to vote for American Idol contestants, and the producers sued to stop them, and the FCC later shut down and fined the scammers. But five seasons later, viewers are still misdialing. One person who owns a phone number similar to a voting number received more than 10,000 calls last week. The New York Times reports that "the number of complaints had fallen since the show began" in 2002, according to a FremantleMedia rep. But there are still "repeated calls to residents whose own phone numbers begin...

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