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p>A mother-of-two has accused Apple of allowing children to spend money online after her son, who is seven, racked up a four figure bill for games.

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p>Abi Smith received a number of emails that confirmed her son Harry had made more than 60 purchases in-app totalling PS1,218 without her consent.

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p>She had installed the password on Harry's iPad but the schoolboy had managed to swap it with his thumbprint. Then, he spent some PS792 on virtual cat food among other purchases.

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p>The woman, 40 years old hails from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, was forced to take out a loan to pay her bills. She is now taking aim at Apple for refusing to give her a refund.

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p>Abi Smith received a series of emails confirming that her son Harry had made more than 60 purchases in-app totalling PS1,218 with out her permission

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p>The woman, 40 years old, who hails from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, was forced to borrow money to pay her bills. https://www.dhakacourier.net/ She has since taken on Apple for initially refusing her refund

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p>Abi Smith had created a password for Harry the seven-year-old's tablet. However, Harry was a smart boy, swapped it for his thumbprint in a playful effort to keep Reggie, four, safe. (pictured together).

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p>Harry bought eight lots of cat food in virtual form for PS99 each on The Battle Cats game, in addition to making a variety of purchases on Minecraft for PS48.99 each, six on the popular game Among Us and smaller purchases of PS1.99.

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p>Apple has since confirmed that it will reimburse Ms. Smith the money.

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p>Ms Smith is a Pennsylvanian on furlough, is now insisting on Apple for an additional layer of security.

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p>She added that the games are addictive and keep encouraging children to spend more money. Apple is allowing children to play on this platform.

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p>"Harry" did something that was as innocent as a child could. He didn't want his brother to use his iPad , so he put his thumbprint onto it so that he wouldn't be able to get into.

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p>'Normally he'd come to me and ask'mummy, can I download this and I'd say yes or no.

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p>"It has never happened to me before and it will not occur again." While security features are readily available, they aren't enough for me. To add something simple like a CVC is an additional step.

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p>'I'm furloughed. I've already seen a reduction in my monthly payments, only to then have it completely erased. To pay my bills, I had to borrow money.

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p>"My son has special needs and I'm strugglingwith it," she said. This isn't fair.

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p>She branded the games dangerous for encouraging continual purchase of in-app items, after Harry went from spending 99p, to rack up a four-figure bill.

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p>Harry offered to pay his mother back with money from his pocket.

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p>She stated, "The only purchase I made on that account was 99p. I was completely unaware of this until they informed me that the details of your card automatically save."

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p>"There should be a choice available, and should there be I'd say no. This completely prevents this from happening to children. This is what I'm trying to get to with Apple.

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p>"I had security settings in place, but unfortunately I have a clever boy who managed to leave his thumbprint there.

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p>Ms Smith claims her bank was unable to stop the payments because they were deemed as authorized. Ms Smith then requested each purchase to be individually returned online, however Apple repeatedly refused to refund her.

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p>When she confronted Harry, the youngster was crying and offered to repay her by putting his money in his pocket.

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p>Apple declined to comment but highlighted its 'Ask To Buy' feature which sends an email to a family member whenever an infant attempts to make a purchase.

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p>The parent, or the account the account holder, is then able to approve or decline the request to prevent problems such as Ms Smith's occurring.

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p>PONOS, the developers of The Battle Cats, Microsoft, who own Minecraft and Inner Sloth, who developed Among Us, were all asked for their opinions.

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