British child spent $ 1615 on in-game purchases in iPad

In the UK, parents often have to pay huge bills of their children, who are spending money in the shareware games on iPhone and iPad.

It is reported by the British newspaper Daily Mail, Popular projects like Angry Birds, Fasci zombies and Penguin Rush can download and install free of charge, but in the course of the game on the screen and then there are pop-up ads with the offer to buy something. Applications can purchase additional game coins, new levels, weapons and special abilities for the characters, which allows faster and more efficient to pass this or that game.

The money spent on these services are removed from the parents' credit cards. According to the publication, the 6-year-old Jake Sadler spent 1615 dollars playing on iPad mum. Parents learned about it only after a call from the bank, when his team discovered unusual activity on the credit card holder. 

"We could not think that the money goes to the card while we were not informed of the bank - says Jake's mother happened Gemma Sandler. - I was shocked when I looked the details of the account and saw that amount. " 

It is noteworthy that on mobile devices Apple, which are played a thousand children, not only in Britain but throughout the world, requesting a password for in-game purchases. But if the parents themselves will enter the password of your account, then the children have a 15-minute opportunity to the next entry to purchase a variety of gaming.

In this case, parental controls, built-in operating system iOS, can remove purchases as well as directly within the games and applications. But in practice, many parents do not know about these options, so the children and parents continue to spend more money, immersed in virtual reality on its iPhone and iPad.