HILDESHEIM - A federal unemployment office set up a job interview for one of their female applicants with a phone sex agency, officials admitted Thursday. Daniela Pielorz, 32, said she was delighted when a job counsellor at the Hildesheim unemployment office said he had found a job for her in the field of "tele-marketing consumer interface relations".

But she was appalled when her prospective employer outlined the job description.

"He said I had to answer the phone and moan a lot while men said filthy things to me, and that I was supposed to keep moaning and egg them on so as to run up the charges on their phone bills," Pielorz said.

"I was absolutely shocked and told him in no uncertain terms what he could do with the job," she said.

The employment office apologized profusely and promised an investigation.

"We had no way of knowing that this job offer might be of a morally reprehensible nature, and in fact, it sounded quite legitimate," said Hildesheim's jobs office spokesman Gerd Stoppok. "We shall be looking more closely in future into the sorts of positions we are being asked to filled."