Taiwan Boys online game Brush mother credit card Buy some books, seven days 300,000 so heroic

Xinhua Beijing, March 1, according to Taiwan's "joint newspaper" reported that Xinzhu County a primary school six-grade boys online play games, brush mom's credit card to buy "points", seven days a total of 300,000 yuan (NT, the same), the family received the bill dumbfounded, do not believe that the child shot so heroic.

The report said that the woman surnamed Xu recently received a credit card bill startled, exclaimed "How can you brush 300,000?" "Look at the bill, seven days a day for 20,000, 30,000, 50,000 yuan unequal amount of consumption, a short week of total consumption amounted to 300,000 yuan; she asked, the original is a primary school of six grade son online play games, brush her card to buy" points ", stored value cards, almost fainted.

The boy confessed to use his mother's credit card shopping, he said, online to fill in credit card data is not difficult, card card number, as for the network card verification password, guess is the mother's birthday, the result of "a guess on", smooth shopping.

Xu surname woman questioned the network game company let underage children swipe card, consumer behavior does not have legal effect, to Xinzhu County Ro Junshing complaints.

Rogen said, under the provisions of the 20-year-old Hewes capacity, seven years old, under 20 years of age is restricted capacity, such as trading with people, the contract must be approved by the parents, otherwise ineffective; Network game companies should identify and filter the age of consumers, the majority of minors with parental credit card without parental consent, There are also regulations restricting the ability of minors to shop.

Online gaming companies say they are still unable to filter the age of Internet users, and they want to split up with software companies, unable to absorb losses entirely. After co-ordination, the boys and girls also felt that they had not disciplined their children and were partly to blame, and both sides agreed to take one step to reach a settlement of $150,000.

Ro Junshing remind parents to pay more attention to their children online to do what? Home has a credit card, to avoid letting children know the card number, or with a birthday password settings, but also suggested that the network game companies to set the age mechanism of shoppers, otherwise consumers if the legal channels, the lawsuit has a dozen.