It is not usually a good idea to leave a child a mobile device without supervision, much less when they have access to our credit card to make content purchases.

The truth is We are always surprised by this kind of news., though nonetheless, no one is too far away from similar things happening to them. Or is it that no one has left their smartphone to a child for a while to calm or entertain you?

Is a very common gesturesurely unfortunately, and since we have all kinds of personal information on our phone and even our banking credentials, Leaving a child’s cell phone unattended can be extremely dangerous as Jessica Johnson testifies.

And it is that This mom from Wilton, Connecticutcounted to Good Morning America how his son George had spent a whopping $16,293.10 in purchases in app inside your favorite mobile video game.

The experience is revealing and shocking in equal parts, and it is that Jessica herself explained how his youngest son had been charging his credit card on a recurring basis, all of them for buy rings in the game Sonic Forces with the purpose of go further and do it faster Thanks to the boosters.

In fact, it is that this mother reported up to 12 charges of $106.34 in the same daywith other charges of $53.16 and several more within a range of $200 to $600 all of them compatible with content packs in app from the popular SEGA game.

The Statement by Jessica Johnson should serve as a warning:

As a mother of young children, I thought it was important for other parents to know. It was unfortunate because we were all in a pandemic, we all work from home, and we work very hard to keep our children entertained while we do our professional work. Sometimes we are inclined to say: “Here, take the iPad.” I think this was a failure, clearly, at least in my experience.

obviously the woman informed your bank of the activity as soon as she could find out, and after the confirmation response informing her that she would be responsible for the expenses, tried to contact Apple and SEGA directly to tell them what had happened.

SEGA has still not responded to her, several weeks later, but fortunately for her, the Cupertino giant did agree to refund a part of his moneynothing less than $10,553.86although without specifying why specifically that amount and simply informing that charges that could be identified have been refunded.

Jessica Johnson added that yes you have a password set up on the iPadalthough he believes that his configuration was incorrect to share the device with a child, because apparently allowed purchasing by entering a one-time password that his son George had known how to use.

Without a doubt, the news is quite interesting and very revealing, especially so that parents with small children avoid lending their own smartphones with all their data to younger children, at least without constant supervision… What would happen if this happens in Spain? Will the bank help us? Will Apple or Google?