Teen girl spends family\u2019s life savings on $64,000 worth of mobile games A teenager in China is making headlines after she spent a whopping $64,000 on mobile games, completely draining her family\u2019s life savings. Mobile game expenses can really add up if you\u2019re not careful, but one gamer went way too far after spending everything her family had earned, all without her parent\u2019s knowledge. According to a report from Insider, Gong Yiwang, the mother of the 13-year-old, received a call from her daughter\u2019s school, expressing concern that she was playing too many games. This resulted in Yiwang checking her bank balance and was absolutely mortified to see the damage her child had caused over the course of a few months. Teen spends $64,000 on mobile games What Yiwang discovered was that her daughter had spent $64K on games including $30,000 on microtransactions over the course of five months. Plus, she spent money on classmates so they could play with her. Yiwang\u2019s daughter told Elephant News that she had no idea where the money was coming from or how much she was spending. However, she reportedly tried to hide the evidence from her parents by deleting the transactions off her phone. The mother meanwhile, who has only 7 cents left to her name, is trying to recoup the lost money by requesting refunds, but so far, she hasn\u2019t gotten any of the funds back. \u201cI never thought a 13-year-old girl could do this,\u201d the mom said. \u201cI\u2019m in a daze; my head feels like it\u2019s going to explode.\u201d Needless to say, this is one of the wildest mobile gaming stories we\u2019ve encountered here at Dexerto and yet another reason why parents should monitor their kids\u2019 cellphone use and the money they\u2019ve been spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Teen girl spends family\u2019s life savings on $64,000 worth of mobile games A teenager in China is making headlines after she spent a whopping $64,000 on mobile games, completely draining her family\u2019s life savings. Mobile game expenses can really add up if you\u2019re not careful, but one gamer went way too far after spending everything […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}