"invalid string" on Contact.get containing "select"

Steps followed:

• Create an organization with name "ACME Volunteers Selection"
• Open the API Explorer
• Entity: Contact
• Action: get
• Parameter: Organization Name = "ACME Volunteers Selection"
• Execute

Expected result:
The API explorer returns the organisation

Actual Result:

    {
    	"error_code":0,
    	"entity":"Contact",
    	"action":"get",
    	"is_error":1,
    	"error_message":"invalid string"
    }

Problem code:
line 833 of api/v3.php checks if the value contains the word "SELECT", and if so throws the error.