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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 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 19 points 17 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.