By: iPadfanzz staff on March 2, 2013
Sharon and Greg Kitchen of Bristol, England, got freaked out when they learned their 5-year-old son, Danny, ran up a $2,590 iTunes bill in just 10 minutes.
While downloading the free app, Danny’s innocence led him into the game's online store and innocently ordered dozens of costly add-ons - totalling £1,710.43.
His parents knew nothing about his purchases until they saw emails from iTunes the following day listing what he had bought. Her credit card company then phoned to query the payments - and Mrs Kitchen, 44, realised what had happened.
“We thought it was a free game so my husband put in the passcode and handed it to him,” said Sharon Kitchen.
Sharon said some his purchases included in-game weapons and keys on the iPad 3 including 12 purchases of '333 keys' at £69.99 a time and seven '333 ecstasy bombs' at £69.99. There were also purchases of five lots of "9000 darts" each costing £69.99, five lots of '4200 darts' at £5.49 each and additional ecstasy bombs totalling £3.22.
According to Apple, people have to keep their pass code secure in order to stop unauthorised electronic purchases on its products.
"All iOS devices (iPad, iPhone and iPod touch) have built in parental controls that give parents and guardians the ability to restrict access to content, eg internet access and age rated content such as music, games, apps, TV shows, movies etc.,” the company said.
Sharon and Greg Kitchen of Bristol, England, got freaked out when they learned their 5-year-old son, Danny, ran up a $2,590 iTunes bill in just 10 minutes.
While downloading the free app, Danny’s innocence led him into the game's online store and innocently ordered dozens of costly add-ons - totalling £1,710.43.
His parents knew nothing about his purchases until they saw emails from iTunes the following day listing what he had bought. Her credit card company then phoned to query the payments - and Mrs Kitchen, 44, realised what had happened.
“We thought it was a free game so my husband put in the passcode and handed it to him,” said Sharon Kitchen.
Sharon said some his purchases included in-game weapons and keys on the iPad 3 including 12 purchases of '333 keys' at £69.99 a time and seven '333 ecstasy bombs' at £69.99. There were also purchases of five lots of "9000 darts" each costing £69.99, five lots of '4200 darts' at £5.49 each and additional ecstasy bombs totalling £3.22.
According to Apple, people have to keep their pass code secure in order to stop unauthorised electronic purchases on its products.
"All iOS devices (iPad, iPhone and iPod touch) have built in parental controls that give parents and guardians the ability to restrict access to content, eg internet access and age rated content such as music, games, apps, TV shows, movies etc.,” the company said.
