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Accidentally Donating to the Wrong Charity

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday March 25 2014, @01:48PM   
from the so-simple-an-idiot-could-do-it dept.

lhsi writes:

"It has been discovered that some people have been accidentally donating money to a different charity than they intended by using the wrong SMS keyword. In the last few days, a lot of donations have been made to the Cancer Research UK charity, however some have accidentally been made to Unicef instead where mobile users sent a text with the message "DONATE" instead of "BEAT" to a specific shortcode.

Unicef has said, "We contacted Cancer Research [UK] as soon as we became aware of what was happening. Unicef and Cancer Research [UK] have agreed that these donations will be received in full by Cancer Research [UK]."

Even knowing which word to use didn't help some people as their smartphone auto-corrected "BEAT" to "BEAR", and they were subsequently sent information about adopting a polar bear from the WWF."

• And these are called 'Smart Phones? And these are called 'Smart Phones? (Score: -1, Troll) by rts008 on Tuesday March 25 2014, @02:41PM

  by rts008 (3001) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @02:41PM (#21116)

  This strikes me as extremely funny.

  Yes, 'smart phones', and their 'smart users'. LOL!
  Better entertainment than Looney Tunes!

  Just remember folks, when you make a donation and accidentally adopt a bear, make sure you keep it well fed!!

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• Re:And these are called 'Smart Phones? (Score: 1) by Bot on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:21PM

  by Bot (3902) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:21PM (#21134)

  > when you make a donation and accidentally adopt a bear, make sure you keep it well fed!!

  I see no problem, fact: humans are edible. I like also fact: circuits are not.

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