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Teen spends $64K from mom's debit card on mobile games; family left with 7 cents

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A 13-year-old girl in China spent the equivalent of $64,000 on mobile games and in-app purchases using her mother’s debit card.
These days it seems important to teach your kids the value of money.  If they don’t understand the difference between real currency and in-app money, they might face the same problem that this one family in China has suffered through. A 13-year-old girl in China charged $64,000 (over 450,000 Yuan) using her mother’s debit card on pay-to-play mobile games according to Insider. The story was originally reported by a television channel called Elephant News in the Henan Province.The mother, Gong Yiwang, said that she discovered that her bank account had only 7 cents left after a teacher called from her daughter’s boarding school to warn the mother that her daughter seemed addicted to pay-to-play games.

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