daughter Georgina Munday10 years old, resident Denbighshire (Wales) spent more than £2,500 – around €3,000 – on the game roblox for iPad. This is a game focused on kids, where players can spend money to customize their characters and play special mini-games.

This is not the first time something like this has happened, a few months ago we recalled the story of a 6-year-old boy from Conetica (USA) playing with his mother’s iPad and spending up to $16,000 on Sonic Forces. was working.

A girl spends 3,000 euros on an iPad, but there are ways to avoid it

The girl’s mother, Georgina Munday, went to Tesco Bank to request reimbursement for her daughter’s purchases. From the bank, they initially refused to return the money, but they thought again and apologized After the lawsuit, the BBC’s “You and Yours” radio program reached.

“We apologize to Ms Munday that this was not refunded when she first contacted us and therefore we have arranged an additional payment for her as a gesture of goodwill.”

They stated that they have from Roblox a very robust no unauthorized payment policyApple, on the other hand, pointed out that pre-purchase warnings can be used.

There are also multiple parental controls parents can use so their kids aren’t likely to spend money while shopping from the App Store or in-game.

Georgina said she is not afraid to leave her iPad for her daughter to play.

“He knew what he was doing, he changed the password but I don’t think he understood the enormity of it.”

Children are progressing more and more, especially in the technological field. Mom I thought Roblox was an innocent and simple gamebut there is a whole world out there that I don’t know.