[OldBill]

stupid is as stupid does china parents

A teenage girl found her mom's debit card and spent $64,000 on mobile games, wiping out her family's life savings

• A teenage girl in China spent her family's life savings on mobile-game transactions.
  
• She spent some $64,000 from January to May through her mother's debit card, per Elephant News.
  
• She told the outlet that she deleted the chat and transaction records to hide them from her mother.

A 13-year-old girl in China spent around $64,000 of her parents' money on mobile games this year, wiping out their savings account without their knowledge.
Gong Yiwang learned about the spending spree in late May after receiving a call from a teacher at her daughter's boarding school, who worried the child was addicted to pay-to-play games, according to Elephant News, a regional TV channel in the Henan province.
When Gong checked her bank account, she realized it was left with a bank balance of only seven cents.
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, per Elephant News. 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 it's going to explode."


Weeping as she spoke, Gong's daughter told Elephant 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.

[stevenash]

I have read countless stories like the one you just posted Billy, and it occurs often, not just by teenagers, I've read stories like this one involving professional doctors and attorneys, and by housewifes, and from grandparents...

Point being...
This happens more frequently than people are aware of.

I see three doctors, one is an orthopedic specialist for my bad leg, the other is a GP for my overall health needs.
The other is a psychiatrist, for one reason only, to help me with my sleep disorders, he's great, and if you ask me most of the general population could use a psychiatrist for one reason or another as 99.8 percent of people's brain is not wired properly.

This isn't my opinion, I'm not a brain doctor, he does that professionally, I don't know much more about medicine and how that works more than the average person does, that's why I see someone who is a professional.

We had this chat one day, usually when something like this happens, in this case a teenager, they can't help themselves because her brain isn't wired correctly, it's not like she's evil, and she would not do something like this if she could help it.

Be angered at the crime if you will, try not to be angered with the people who commit these crimes.
If you have the need to place the blame somewhere, blame the lack of mental health awareness, with proper mental health care, a lot more serious crimes, like rape and murder for instance can be avoided.

This is just my opinion based off of a professionals I have spoken to as I don't know about how the brain works, these doctors do know, they put in dozens of years of research and education dedicated to just how the brain works.

[OldBill]

yup nasher just parents allowing her to have acess 64,000 is 2 years of my combined eranings what i make working plus ssi money and the now reduced food access from 200 a month to $46

like thank god i started investments 6 months ago $200 into one paid out $1750 1st time the second one just came in $1457

[konck]

A debit card is linked to a bank acct right?
How does the Mom never check her acct and does she never use the card?

[OldBill]

A debit card is linked to a bank acct right?
How does the Mom never check her acct and does she never use the card?

cant fix stupid

[TheMoneyShot]

Was it your daughter oldbill? Sounds like you'd allow it in your household.

[VeggieDog]

I thought all the little kids in China worked in the Nike factories.

[stevenash]

I thought all the little kids in China worked in the Nike factories.

Not if they can raid daddys checking account.