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Our eight-year-old daughter spent £8,500 on the Apple app store

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65% Informative

Our daughter, 8 , managed to spend over 8,500 over 90 days on the Apple app store.

She has been sending money to YouTube channels and the YouTubers have befriended her on Roblox .

HSBC did not once alert us to these suspicious transactions.

Apple initially rejected our claim for a refund, then agreed to refund only two payments totalling 60 .

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informal

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English

Language complexity

40

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short-lived

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