$1-Million Prize Denied to Speed-Dialing Demon
<i> Associated Press</i>
ANCHORAGE —
When a long-distance phone company sweepstakes promised $1 million to a randomly selected caller, Paul Hilling started dialing for dollars.
Using an automatic dialer and a bank of phone lines, he made 415,000 calls during the two-week contest in October.
He made nearly one of every four calls during the contest. But when GCI found out what he had done, it disqualified him.
Judges “felt that he was violating the spirit of the contest, that it was unfair to other contestants,” said GCI senior vice president Dana Tindall.
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