A 13 year-old schoolgirl in China spends $64,000 in a game.
Yes, you heaed the title right. There’s a girl in China who used his mom’s bank account and used all of their family savings in purchases for a game. Here’s how:
See, all this happened in 2023. A girl in China spent $64,000 or 455,308 Chinese yuans from January to May 2023.
We all play Minecraft but it is banned in China. So, the name of the game which she played is unknown but surely popular. The child’s mother is Gong Yizang.
Her parents did not know what she was doing. But they did know she was a bit too addicted. But they didn’t stop her and that’s where the article starts.
Gong first knew her daughter’s actions when her teacher told her that her child is too much addicted to mobile games and would play ones in the middle of the class. And of course, it was too intense.
She spent $16,800 or 119,518 yuans on buying game accounts and $30,000 or 213,426 yuans on in-app purchases in the game. The girl also had shared money with 10 classmates which totals a horrifying $64,000 or 455,308 yuans.
When the interview came, she replied that if she doesn’t do that, her classmates will tease and if she tells the teacher, she will tell her parents and get to know her transactions.
She was oversmart than her age, like a bit very much. She knew her mother’s account number as she kept it open in the drawing room and her mother once told her the password in case a kidnapper threats to kill her.
She logged into her mother’s banking app and linked her phone number so that it won’t ask for verifications. When her outnumbered spendings got told in class, she was forced by her classmates to give them money.
Now you would think how her parents didn’t know about that. She deleted messages from the bank and transactions in e-banking accounts. She also blocked bot calls from her phone.
Gong Yizang reached and requested several websites and platforms for the request for refund but of course, none of them accepted to give so.
Gong finally knew her account balance when she went to the ATM to take money. She saw there were only 8 cents remaining in her account (no need of listing it in yuan).
This info was shared to the social media by Elephant News, a news channel in Henan province. This tweet got 140M views on Weibo, Chinese version of Tiktok or Twitter, whatever it is.
Don’t worry, her family received some promotions from Elephant News and donations from several platforms. Currently, they are able to live in a house but they lost all financial profits.