Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 promotion
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The button said approved every time as nobody had set a limit.
  • epicstove@lemmy.caEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Right?

    I swear people hearing stories like this want the absolute worst outcomes for everyone possible with 0 empathy.

    He likely used the company credit card once, got some pop-up and instinctively clicked “yes” as most people do causing the card to be saved to the browser.

    I’m sure the dad will find a way to reverse the damage (or at least greatly minimize it) and both will have learned their lesson.