A grandmother has voiced her fury after her nine-year-old grandson was given the same mobile phone number as a Melbourne brothel . Margaret told Perth radio station 6PR on Wednesday morning that she was outraged after getting word of the apparent mishap . The Western Australian woman had contacted the station after the show discussed West Coast Eagles player Nic Naitanui also reportedly received an identical number to somebody else , reports Sydney Morning Herald . A Western Australian grandmother has revealed her grandson was given the same mobile phone number as a Melbourne brothel . 'All these men kept calling and ... I tell you what I was livid , ' Margaret told the radio station . 'It was such a shock because he could n't understand it and I could n't understand it . ' She told the radio station the nine-year-old received scores of calls from would be customers . Margaret contacted 6PR after an anonymous caller dialled the station to say someone in Queensland had accidentally received the same number as Naitanui . 6PR breakfast announcer Basil Zempilas dialled Naitanui to verify the claim . When they contacted the 24-year-old , he reportedly told them he was baffled by the occurrence and had decided to buy a new phone . West Coast Eagles player Nic Naitanui , who was also recently given the same mobile number as another person . ''He said he had no idea how it happened and nobody could explain how it happened , ' Zempilas said . Fairfax reported that a failure within the provisioning system of the telco company would be responsible for the improbable mix-up .
Grandmother Margaret contacted Perth station 6PR on Wednesday . She said she was told the man had been in a car accident and that he would be taken to hospital for treatment.