[James]

The difference in votes at evictions is usually measured in hundreds of thousands, so it's unlikely that these scams would make any real difference.

And I don't think that many people will be duped into phoning a premium rate number when something is being offered 'free'.

The producers display this information on the website, mainly because they don't want people phoning their numbers as the result of being deceived, not because they think that the result will be affected.

Although this would not have been the case last week, that was an exceptionally close result.