Kid Spends About $5.8K on Jurassic World Microtransactions

For a few years now, we've heard of tales of how people (especially kids with access to their parents credit card accounts) have racked up thousands of dollars on games based on microtransactions. Well, we have another one for you today.

Well, seven-year-old Faisall Shugaa managed to purchase about $5,780 worth of Dino Bucks, the currency used in the Jurassic World free-to-play game. It was all spent between December 13 throughout the 18 in the form 65 transactions--though at one point, he spent $2000 within a single hour. So how in the world did the boy managed to get access to these funds?

Simple: he memorized his father's (Mohamed Shugaa) Apple ID and password, which allowed him to make the purchases without need for a credit card.

Shugaa only managed to catch this when he tried to make a purchase from a supplier (he's a store owner in the UK). Well, what do you know? His attempt led to a declined charge. He then called credit card company, got in touch with fraud services, who actually asked if he recognized the 65 transactions that "had been made to iTunes between December 13 to 18 totaling £3,911." This was reported to The Metro. Additionally, he noted:

"I didn't have a clue what they were talking about and I had to check my bank account online to understand what was going on."

So upon this discovery:

"I was so mad. I'm 32-years-old, why would Apple think I would be spending thousands of pounds on buying dinosaurs and upgrading a game?"

Hey, there are plenty of people out there that are around the same age or older, spending thousands upon thousands on microtransactions such as Hearthstone cards. So what happened post-horrifying discovery?

Well, while he was told initially that there was no guarantee to get a refund, he ended up receiving all his money back. Shugaa hopes that Apple raises security measures about this sort of thing to prevent children and parents from making the same mistake.

"Why didn't they email me to check I knew these payments were being made? I got nothing from them. How much longer would it have gone on for?"

So whose fault is this? Apple or the parents? Well, that's another topic for another day now, isn't it?