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** This [[Morning Zoo]] prank call went very very wrong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRmAyyvAcZY
** [http://www.snopes.com/love/betrayal/radio.asp Snopes relays the tale] of a woman who called into a radio show on Valentine's Day to have the DJs prank call her boyfriend. The DJ called the man and offered him free flowers, and he chose to send them... to his wife. Oops.
* ''[[Crank Yankers]]'' was an example of phone scams on television. The performers would do the crank calls, and then a set of puppeteers wielding [[Jim Henson|Hensonesque]] caricatures of both parties would act out the scene with extra visual gags. One of the best was rapper [[Ludacris]] calling up his manager, claiming he wanted to change his name to "Mr. Peanut". On Luda's end, his puppet was trying on monocles and top hats, while his manager's puppet was calmly shredding Ludacris' contract, and pressing the [[Big Red Button]] marked "In Case of Insane Rapper".
* Apparently the fear of this has become so ubiquitous that a US senator hung up on US President-Elect [[Barack Obama]] because she thought he was a prankster. The fact that VP candidate Sarah Palin fell victim to a just such a prank several weeks earlier ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcEiR01QK7o this one from a group pretending to be the French president and his aide]) probably contributed. Barack Obama was said to have been amused.
* ''El vacilón de la mañana'' was famous in the Hispanic world for creating the infamous "Manolo Cabeza de Huevo" (Egghead Manolo) prank. It all begins with the DJ calling a concierge who ''hates'' being called "egghead". He promptly calls him and tells him "egghead". Then the DJ calls him and, with a high screeching voice, claims to be his bunhole. The final result: Manolo ends up yelling "Fuck you, fuck your mother, fuck you all, and fuck all your motherfucking genealogic tree!".
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