Where's a good betting scam when you need one

Remember those days
It was said that Bubble got kicked out because there was either an e-mail campaign or a flyer going around telling victims that if they phoned a certain number then they would get free beer for the European cup (or something like that). The problem was, that the number was the evict bubble line.
For the record, I was never scammed, I intended to vote out Bubble, to keep in a serial nomminee and annoy all the HM's
Any contempory reference taken, must be in the mind of the reader as officially I am neutral, for the moment.