We thought this Roblox game was quite innocent, it looks very basic. 'Children are one step ahead of parents these days. 'She knew what she was doing she changed the password but I don't think she understood the enormity of it,' Munday said. Of course the other option is to educate yourself and be very discerning about what games you allow your little ones to indulge in, particularly where microtransactions are involved and the real-world financial implications obfuscated behind premium currencies. 'Parents also have access to a suite of Parental Controls that can be used to determine how much their children can spend, and set spend notifications to increase visibility over their children's spending on Roblox,' the company said.

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Roblox also has a 'robust policy for processing refund requests there may have been unauthorized payments from a person's account' and should probably have been the family's first port of call.

However, as much as Apple and Roblox love taking parents' money, both have a bunch of protections to stop kids driving their folks into bankruptcy.Īpple says children shouldn't be given passwords or Face/Touch ID access to iDevices and also has an Ask to Buy system whereby a parent has to approve a purchase.

Munday said her kid, who has autism, had been off school for some time due to difficulties with mainstream education and was using the iPad a lot more than usual.

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