Let me tell you a sobering and instructive story of how youthful curiosity and low-level larceny can be terribly bad for your financial health. This could be life or death info.
Just ask my friend, who tells me a sobering and instructive story of how youthful curiosity and low-level larceny can be terribly bad for your financial health. As we launchMy friend first started noticing the charges on her Apple account a few weeks ago. She's as busy as the rest of us, and also signed on to all those streaming services and subscriptions during the dark times.
The nice helpful bloke logged into her history and then asked the dreaded question, the one that gave the game away: "You have family sharing turned on with this account, don't you?"The video game industry has a slew of tactics to take your time and money — some obvious, and some not so much. Are they playing you?But the helpful guy had even worse news: "These are all in-game currency purchases by your daughter — she's been buying the items in her game.
She said she felt like an idiot. She was well aware that these games kept dangling items to win or buy as a way of getting through the game, and of. And while my friend was happy to buy one item for her girl when she started the game, she had no idea her Apple Pay details remained embedded in the game and could be accessed when the temptation got too much.You can imagine the scene later that day when the kid got home from school.
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