Student emails 246 Nicoles to find lost connection

Boy meets girl, girl gives boy wrong number: some people might take it as a hint, but one Canadian student decided it was a challenge.

He emailed 246 women at the University of Calgary with the first name “Nicole” in search of the one he had met the night prior – causing many of the women on the mass email chain to strike up a friendship.

“We have this Nicole network now,” said communications student Nicole Manaog.

The girl gang formed after Carlos Zetina met one Nicole on Thursday when the pair apparently hit it off – but Zetina only managed to snag her first name and a wrong number.

So he sent out an email blast: “Met you last night and you gave me the wrong number,” read the subject line.

But as a Dutch exchange student, Toetenel does not have an email address affiliated with the university in Canada’s Alberta province.

The other women, however, began a long thread and soon created a Facebook page they dubbed “Nicole From Last Night” to have a mass conversation sans Zetina.

Some 15 of the Nicoles met up at a bar near the university campus, and the “real Nicole” was made aware of the situation through a friend late Friday.

Zetina received word from the real Nicole via text message.

The two plan to get coffee next week, Rathberger told AFP, a date to which the other Nicoles have not been invited.