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Children's advertisements did this in the 1980s in the US with pay-per-minute numbers. The ad would offer to connect children to Santa if they held a phone up t

Children's advertisements did this in the 1980s in the US with pay-per-minute numbers. The ad would offer to connect children to Santa if they held a phone up to the television. DTMF -> 900 number -> profits.

icelancer 11y ago
Ha! True commercial phreaking. I love it.
sp332 11y ago
People at NPR were joking later that they should just ask listeners' devices to send them money during a fund drive.