A 13-year-old girl in China wiped out her mother’s bank account by spending around $64,000 on mobile games this year.
According to a News Outlet, Gong Yiwang learned about her daughter’s gaming addiction in late May after receiving a call from a teacher at her daughter’s boarding school. The teacher expressed concern that the girl was spending too much time and money on pay-to-play games.
When Gong checked her bank account, she was stunned to see that it had only seven cents left. She later discovered that from January to May, her daughter had spent around $16,800 buying game accounts and almost $30,000 on in-game purchases. The girl also transferred money to at least 10 classmates who wanted to buy game products for themselves, bringing the total cost of the child’s monthslong binge to around $64,000.
“I never thought a 13-year-old girl could do this,” Gong told Elephant News. “I’m in a daze; my head feels like
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it’s going to explode.”
The girl, who was crying as she spoke, told The News that she had linked her mother’s debit card to her mobile phone but didn’t know where the money came from or how much she was spending. She said that she remembered her mother telling her the account’s password from a previous occasion when she asked to buy something else.
She said her school friends noticed her newfound spending power and pestered her for money.
“If I didn’t send it to them, they would bother me all day. If I told the teacher, I was afraid that the teacher would tell my parents and that my parents would be angry,” she told Elephant News.
She also deleted chat and transaction records to hide the payments from her parents, per the outlet.
Gong said she reached out to several payment platforms to request refunds but had yet to recoup her losses on the full sum.
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