One mom in the United States thought she was a victim of credit card fraud when she saw charges on her card that racked up to over $16,000 (about P770,000).
However, it turned out that the culprit was her 6-year-old son who had been making in-app purchases while playing the game Sonic Forces on her iPad, the New York Post reported yesterday, Dec. 12. Add-on boosters start at $1.99 and go up to $99.99 (P95.80 to P4813.58).
Jessica Johnson, 41, was shocked to find her bill reach $16,923.10 by July. Because these were unitemized charges, she did not realize her son George was behind it, and she filed a fraud claim that month to Chase Bank.
“The way the charges get bundled made …
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