Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Father turned his own son to the Police for fraud

Those of you with 'sharp memory' would recall sometime last month when I wrote on this blog that a 5 year old Bristol boy spent 1700 pounds on iTunes. A similar story came up recently. This time, Apple did not refund the money and, this made the father of the boy to call Apple bluff.
A 13 year old Bristol boy, Cameron, thought that the advertised free games would not cost a dime to download, with the idea in mind, he downloaded multiple games from Apple iTunes store. Unknown to him, he was being charge and, each game cost 77.98 British pounds.
A few days later, the father, Doug, a Policeman was shocked when his credit card company phoned to tell him that his own teenage son had spent 3700 British pounds on games. The father asked Apple to refund the money but, Apple refused. So, he took in the advice the credit card company gave him and reported his son's act to the Action Fraudline.
He did it only to embarrass Apple for charging child games. He believed his son has been duped.
Doug turned his to the police because he wanted to have a crime reference number if there is any possibility that Apple would refund his credit card payments.
Cameron on the other hand said he thought the games were free which was why he kept on downloading. Furthermore, the family said they were unaware that he was being charge for downloading the game.

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