{"id":13903,"date":"2019-07-09T09:51:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T08:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=13903"},"modified":"2019-07-09T09:52:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T08:52:14","slug":"the-kids-that-emptied-their-parents-bank-account-on-fifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/the-kids-that-emptied-their-parents-bank-account-on-fifa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kids That Emptied Their Parents Bank Account On Fifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Four children spent nearly \u00a3550 in three weeks buying player packs to play the Fifa football video game online on the family&#8217;s Nintendo Switch console.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Fifa, special players can be bought in packs, but the contents are only revealed after payment is completed. The children&#8217;s father, Thomas Carter, had bought them a single pack for around \u00a38, and had not realised they had seen how he made the purchase. The Switch has now been confiscated &#8220;indefinitely&#8221;, Mr Carter said. Nintendo has agreed to a full refund and has removed the purchased players.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just never thought the children would do it,&#8221; Mr Carter said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/177D1\/production\/_107790269_66118238_454327302032717_5523664457638608896_n.png\" alt=\"Nintendo bank details\" width=\"403\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__crosshead\"><strong>How to activate spending controls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some devices are more complicated than others, here&#8217;s a quick (and not exhaustive) guide:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">On the Xbox One: select the Xbox symbol button on the controller. Go to the Systems menu, then follow the pathway settings\/account\/sign-in, security and passkey. Select &#8220;change my sign-in&#8221;, scroll right to &#8220;customise&#8221; then &#8220;ask for my passkey to make purchases&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">On the Nintendo Switch: log-in using the parental account, click &#8220;family group&#8221; and select each family member&#8217;s log-in that you wish to restrict. Click &#8220;restrict spending in Nintendo e-shop&#8221; to disable purchasing and hit save.<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">On an iPhone or iPad: activate Screen Time on the device. You will need to set up a separate parent passcode. Then go to Content and Privacy Restrictions, activate &#8220;content and privacy&#8221;, go to iTunes and App Store Purchases and set to &#8220;don&#8217;t allow&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">On the PS4: you must set up a separate account for your child. The monthly spending limit is automatically set at zero. Sony says it will not refund purchases made from adult accounts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four children spent nearly \u00a3550 in three weeks buying player packs to play the Fifa football video game online on the family&#8217;s Nintendo Switch console. In Fifa, special players can be bought in packs, but the contents are only revealed after payment is completed. The children&#8217;s father, Thomas Carter, had bought them a single pack&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":13905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391,5],"tags":[1397,49,317,1398,149,71,1399,43],"class_list":["post-13903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","category-uk-news","tag-fifia","tag-finance","tag-games","tag-gaming","tag-money","tag-news","tag-nintendo","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13906,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions\/13906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}