Facebook ‘dislike’ scam warning

From the BBC 16 August 2010 (source).

Submitted by Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine who comments:

I guess they ‘like’ the scam?

(This blossom may not work as well for US English speakers, who’d presumably expect “Facebook ‘dislikes’…”, but as a British speaker, it seems quite natural enough that I didn’t work out the correct reading until I was a couple of paragraphs into the story.)

One thought on “Facebook ‘dislike’ scam warning

  1. Chris Travers

    What’s actually really funny here is that there is a link to another story (below “More on this story”) at the bottom of the page:
    ‘Thousands’ targeted in bank scam

    Normally that would be pretty straight-forward. However in this case, in context with this story, it makes you wonder if ‘Thousands’ is a bank, a specific group of people, or the like.

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