His son spent nearly $ 2,000 on video games and sold his car to pay for it all

In recent years, parents have turned to cell phones to entertain their children. However, it is a practice that is becoming very dangerous, both because of the content that children have access to and because of the debts that their parents acquire.

A few months ago a little boy took his father’s cell phone to play a video game and when he reached a certain level he had to “buy one of the characters” and he did so with the following without imagining that it would cause a great debt to his father. The man had to sell his car to pay for everything.

Her little one just wanted to play

Ashaz is a young boy who lives with his family in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. He is only seven years old and one day he asked his father, the endocrinologist Muhammad Ashaz, for his phone to play Dragons: Rise of Berk, a very entertaining video game that has a recommended age of four years and up.

So far everything was fine. However, from one moment to another, the little one began to make unlimited purchases of up to $ 150 because the video game allowed it.

In just one hour, the boy made more than 30 purchases with his dad’s iPhone. Although the application sent emails to alert of the purchases, this is an account that the man does not usually use or review, so he did not realize the situation. The doctor believed that the video game was free, but discovered too late that the boy had spent 1785 dollars unlocking levels and characters.

The father was surprised by the amount the boy spent and had to sell his car

Once he saw the exaggerated amount, he contacted Apple and reproached them for allowing these expenses to be made without any security measures. However, the money was already spent and had to be paid. The problem? Muhammad did not have that much money! So he had to sell his family car, a Toyota Aygo, to cover the debt.

At first, my thought was that I had been scammed. I never thought it would be possible to spend so much money on children’s games, the game is for four years or more. You are not even limited to one click per day, you can click buy more than 10,000 times and spend a million dollars in half an hour. I had literally almost exhausted my credit card limit and these days you live through credit card. I have been an Apple customer since 2005, I said to the customer service manager on the phone: ‘Well done, you ripped me off, congratulations, you managed to rip off my son.’

The family did have a refund

In the end, Apple only reimbursed them $ 290 from the account, but they no longer had their car to pay for the money. Now organizations like the Federal Trade Commission of the United States are making new agreements to avoid this type of situation. Even so, it is important that parents configure the platform’s banking applications so that children do not have access to them. Also, supervising them while they play is the first thing to do.