Auto-correct blunder sends cancer donations to the wrong place

Earlier today, we showed you 10 funny mistakes made by an auto-correcting QWERTY keyboard. But not all auto-correcting mishaps are funny. Last week, a social media campaign called #nomakeupselfie was raising money for Cancer Research UK, and had a system all set up for donations to be made by having donors simply send a text.



To make the donation to fund cancer research, you had to send a text to a specific phone number with the message BEAT typed out. The idea, of course, was that your donation would help researches BEAT cancer. But the auto-correcting QWERTY on some of the devices used ...