"Welcome to America's hottest talk line. Ladies, to talk with interesting and exciting guys free, press 1 now. Press 1 now."

That's the greeting callers get when they dial the number on the back of their Maine electronic food-stamp card. Either the Maine Department of Health and Human Services has branched out into the phone-sex market or it's a misprint. Turns out the agency hasn't opened a sex line, and instead the phone number to reach the agency is off by one digit on the Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards.

Agency spokesman John Martins told local media that the department is aware of the mistake, and it's being corrected.

"We have a plan in place to replace all existing defective cards and have taken additional steps to strengthen our review process so this type of inadvertent error does not occur again," he said.

Martins said it wasn't known how many cards had the misprint, but he said it wasn't all totally the government's fault.

"While we recognize that we are responsible for this inadvertent error, what we have learned is that it appears the company that operates this chat line searches for phone numbers that are very similar to widely published government phone numbers and buys them to take advantage of either consumers who misdial or an inadvertent error in publishing the number."

LJ Langelier of Maine posted a brief video of the mishap on Facebook. He told the Lewiston-Auburn Sun Journal that he was hesitant about publishing the video about his welfare card. But he said he did so the other day for a "good laugh."