11-year-old girl ruined her parents by spending thousands of dollars on TickTok
'15.09.2019'
Source: Medialeaks
The woman lost all her money, but the robbers had nothing to do with it. The daughter and her love for TikTok are to blame.
A woman has lost all her savings, but this is not the fault of scammers or robbers. Everything was to blame for her 11-year-old daughter, who wanted to become closer to her beloved blogger at TikTok, writes Medialeaks. And such an ardent desire led to sad consequences for the whole family. After all, apparently, nobody is going to return money to them.
A young mother from England was very surprised when she discovered that all her money had run out on her card, Geek writes. At first, she thought that she had become a victim of fraudsters or the funds from her account were debited by mistake, however, during the proceedings one interesting detail was found out, which turned out to be a complete surprise for the family. After all, all the savings, namely 4 thousands of dollars, spent 11-year-old daughter.
It turned out that the child really likes one blogger who makes videos on TikTok. The girl always wanted to be closer to her idol and to make sure that he would ever notice her, and once the idea occurred to her how to crank it all up. For a fee, the influencer offered to synchronize their videos with the clips of their subscribers, which the girl happily took advantage of. That's just mom and dad is now clearly not happy with such "bright ideas" of his daughter.
“This was all the money we had. Now we don't have a single penny in our family, ”the parents admitted.
The girl through her iTunes account, to which, as it turned out, her mother’s card was tied, made many paid transactions in the TikTok application itself. It is not known how much money would eventually be spent on this lesson if it had not once ended. According to the parents, the daughter was literally obsessed with the creativity of this guy and constantly talked about how cool and cool he is. Adults, of course, immediately contacted the young man to explain to him the whole situation and ask them to return the money spent to them. That's just the young man himself, it seems, is not going to return anything.
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“I contacted him by phone and said that I am the mother of the girl who spent all my money and explained the whole situation to him. He didn’t believe me, and it seemed to me that he didn’t care about this question at all ”.
Realizing that she would not achieve sympathy and understanding from a blogger, the woman went to the police station and then to the bank to help her get the money back. Mom still managed to achieve small payments in the amount of 125 dollars, but this is just a drop in the bucket.
In TikTok itself, they commented on this incident and promised that they would conduct an internal audit. However, company representatives did not make any promises, but gave advice on how to avoid such unexpected expenses.
“Parents who are concerned about the possibility of accidental in-app purchases should ensure that the payment function is turned off,” the company said.
