12-Year-Old Rings Up $1400 Farmville Bill
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Zynga keeping the money and suspending the account is even lowercainx10a said:
he dont even get to keep his digital trinkets
I don't even know if I have spent that much money on gaming in my entire life.
In the words of the Salesman on Kung Pow "Thats alot of nuts" ( or in this case of fuckton of carrots)
In the words of the Salesman on Kung Pow "Thats alot of nuts" ( or in this case of fuckton of carrots)
See its not the hardcore games that you expect to ruin your life, it the casual ones that catch you by surprise.
Thats a fucking joke, im 13 and i know when i was 12 four moths ago i wouldn't have done that.
The parents ain't to blame, thats just a cotton wool way of looking at it, Zynga cant be blamed because there a company making money like there meant to.
The kid should be tied a truck and dragged across the m6 that would be a much better way to spend the money!
The parents ain't to blame, thats just a cotton wool way of looking at it, Zynga cant be blamed because there a company making money like there meant to.
The kid should be tied a truck and dragged across the m6 that would be a much better way to spend the money!
You know this makes me worry, I have a few friends who play these facebook games quite alot& after reading this& known first hand how all these small little charges can all add up over time, it wouldn't surprise me if there a huge number of incidence like this happening with the free to play games
Sure how many of us hear have paid for an app on the iTunes store even thou we said we would never pay for one . . . *raises his hand*
- M
Sure how many of us hear have paid for an app on the iTunes store even thou we said we would never pay for one . . . *raises his hand*
- M
What retarded mother would let her 12 year old son onto the Internet with HER CREDIT CARD INFORMATION?
This all could've been avoided if his mom made him use Kwedit [http://kwedit.com/].
Which, by the way, is not a very good idea either.
Whatever way you turn it, the damage has been done, and this kid probably has some sort of future in gaming if he's THAT addicted.
Which, by the way, is not a very good idea either.
Whatever way you turn it, the damage has been done, and this kid probably has some sort of future in gaming if he's THAT addicted.
This is a company that is run by an admitted scam-artist. Of course they don't give a damn if they defraud people. It's simply the truth of the matter, blunt and unpopular though it may be.Knight Templar said:
Why do stories like this keep happening? Don't parents know to keep their credit cards and other finances away from their stupid kids?
I just love how unhelpful Facebook and Zynga are being about it... and why did they suspend the kid's account? I mean, he paid right? So they just took his money and suspended him because he was a bad boy or something?
I just love how unhelpful Facebook and Zynga are being about it... and why did they suspend the kid's account? I mean, he paid right? So they just took his money and suspended him because he was a bad boy or something?
You seem to run under the assumption that Zynga cares about that. Considering what has been reported about Zynga thus far, they don't care who the farmer was, as long as they get their money. And they don't even have to contest refunding the money except for one time with the credit card company. The credit card won't go out of its way either. They leave that entirely on the customer's shoulders.Gunner 51 said:
I hope this lady closed her credit card account right off, as well as deleted any credit cards from accounts online. Even if she got a new account and card, she can leave the kid thinking that there isn't one in the household to use. He can get a debit card and put his own hard earned money into that.
I have never owned a credit card in my life, unless we count "prepaid credit cards" which actually aren't credit cards. It puts a serious limitation on just how much money someone can take from me.samsonguy920 said:
On a related but more tangential note, I keep my debit card in my fire safe, with other vaulables like my birth certificate and passport, taking it out only long enough to withdraw the money I need for food/etc every two weeks when the pay comes in.
Really people need to treat these kinds of cards as they would a SIN (social insurance number) card or other piece of valuable. Your life can get just as fucked up by someone getting a hold of your credit as it can be by someone getting your SIN card. Easier in fact, since the fraud with SIN cards requires some setup whilst anyone who grabs a credit card can easily max out the credit rating.
Wow. No more pocket money for a few years, huh? The fact that the kid even got his hands on his parents' credit card makes me think his mother kind of had this coming. I think there are at least two morals to this story...
What's the real world equivalent of a virtual metric fuckton of carrots?WanderFreak said:
