Apple refuses refund for son buying IAPs totaling $5600, father reports son for fraud

[ayejayjay]

[quote]Topping last month’s accidental in-app purchases worth $2500, a 13-year old U.K. boy, Cameron, has racked up a $5600 credit card bill after going on an IAP purchase spree, unknowingly buying virtual goods in games like Plants vs Zombies, Hungry Shark, Gun Builder and Nova 3.[/quote]
[url]http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/03/father-reports-son-for-fraud-in-app-purchases.html[/url]

I'm late, mods can lock this

[zeromancer]

For fuck sake how do you fuck up that badly.

[BaconMan_lol]

Not Apple's fault. Parents fault.

[theevilldeadII]

Maybe need to fix it form f2f to p2w or make it so you need to type you're password in very time

[toaster_2.0]

[quote] a 13-year old U.K. boy[/quote]

He knew what he was doing.

[Merijn]

When will people realize that you A) Shouldn't enter your creditcard information on your kids' devices or B) Have them properly passworded or w/e

[Sableye]

this is why apple needs to make it so you can create an account WITHOUT tying a credit card to it, so parents could just dump itunes cards on it or something, would fix this easy

[ayejayjay]

Oh. I'm late. Whoops.

[Archangel125]

So the father's getting the son arrested and criminally charged to embarrass Apple. Riiight.

Shit parenting ahoy.

[ayejayjay]

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[Merijn]

[QUOTE=Sableye;40039259]this is why apple needs to make it so you can create an account WITHOUT tying a credit card to it, so parents could just dump itunes cards on it or something, would fix this easy[/QUOTE]

I believe this is already possible.

[TheDecryptor]

[QUOTE=Sableye;40039259]this is why apple needs to make it so you can create an account WITHOUT tying a credit card to it, so parents could just dump itunes cards on it or something, would fix this easy[/QUOTE]

You can do it, but they need to make it a hell of a lot easier.

But parents also need to stop letting their kids buy these things, when it asks for the password to authorise the transaction the parents shouldn't allow it.

[mobrockers2]

[QUOTE=Merijn;40039303]I believe this is already possible.[/QUOTE]

It's not really obvious though. I believe you have to go into iTunes and go to a free app, when you try to 'purchase' the free app you can create an account without cc info, during the normal registration process you do have to put in your cc info. Or at least it was like that a couple years ago.