Son spends over $7000 in FIFA with his father's credit card

[AbbathTheGrim]

-Pembroke, Ontario, Canada

- Dec. 23rd, Lance Perkins, got a credit card bill for $7,625.88 after his 17-year-old son used his credit card to make in-game purchases for one of the FIFA series of soccer games for his Xbox.

- the father said:

"It floored me. Literally floored me, when I'd seen what I was being charged," Perkins told CBC News.

- the father had given his son a credit card for emergencies or to make purchases for the family's convenience store

- dad said his son didn't know what he was doing:

"He thought it was a one-time fee for the game," Perkins said.  "He's just as sick as I am, [because] he never believed he was being charged for every transaction, or every time he went onto the game."

- dad contacted Microsoft and they told him the bill would stand

- Dad quickly contacted his credit card company, and was told unless he wanted to have his son charged with fraud, there was nothing it could do.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/pembroke-xbox-bill-8000-1.3397534

yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nojWJ6-XmeQ

 

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