Monday, 20 June 2016

Kid Racks up almost $6,000 on Jurassic World in-app purchases

Nowadays, there are many mobile apps that use in-app purchases. According to news, a 7-year-old boy had nearly spent almost $6,000 in in-app purchases bills, including $2,000 spent in just one hour. He claimed to not be aware that he was spending real money for upgrading dinosaurs on the mobile apps games, Jurassic World. As a consequence of that, his father had run into credit cards problems after got the credit cards bills from the bank. To make sure that kids will not use real money to make in-apps purchase unintentionally, parents should monitor their kids while they are playing mobile apps games. Besides, there should be added a tutorial on setting up parental controls inside the App Store to improve this problem.

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By: Yvonne Tan

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