SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. -- Applications sent by Seton Hall University to prospective students overseas unwittingly contained a toll-free number offering the opportunity to chat with "hot, horny girls."
The Catholic university, founded in 1856, said it accidentally transposed numbers in admissions application sent to possibly tens of thousands of applicants.
"Spark up your days and nights with stimulating talk," the recording says. It then refers callers to a second 800 number, a phone-sex line selling conversations with "students, housewives and working girls" for 99 cents to $2.99 a minute.
Seton Hall spokesman Thomas White told the Star-Ledger of Newark for Thursday's newspapers that the error was in both the online and print applications, and may have been present for several years.
"I'm surprised that we didn't catch it before now," White said. "This was a very unfortunate typo, and we apologize to any of our international applicants who were affected by this."
The phone number was supposed to connect students with World Education Services, a New York-based firm that screens international academic credentials.
As of Thursday morning, the university was in the process of removing all the references online, although nothing could be done about print applications already mailed out.
World Education Services is phasing out its 800 number and refers students to its Web site,
www.wes.org.
Similar typos have caused embarrassment for other institutions recently. Last year motorists looking for special license plates were accidentally sent by brochures and the Web site of New Jersey's Motor Vehicle Commission to a phone-sex line.
In December, seniors calling a toll-free number to ask questions about Medicare were directed to a similar service due to a misprint in 20,000 letters sent by insurer Humana.
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