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The passion for mobile games took a toll on a child’s life. The case is of Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, where 13-year-old Krishna Pandey lost 40 thousand rupees in playing an online game named Garena Free Fire. When the child’s mother scolded him for this, he went into depression. Later he committed suicide.
This is not the first case when children have spent thousands or lakhs of rupees on their parents due to some game. In June this year, in order to upgrade Free Fire, a child from Chhattisgarh bought weapons worth Rs 3.22 lakh. At the same time, 3 children of UP bought weapons worth more than Rs 11 lakh while playing the game. Such cases are coming to the fore continuously for a few months.
Now the question arises that how do children access the bank accounts of parents during online gaming? What are some games that ask thousands of rupees for upgrades or other services? Is phone banking on a smartphone not secure in such cases? Know the answers to all questions…
First let’s talk about online paid games…
There are many such games on Google Play Store or Apple App Store that get downloaded for free, but later on, they charge huge amount from the user in the name of upgrade or different services. There are many limitations in free games, due to which the gaming experience of the user is not good. Whereas after the paid service, many options like new weapons, points, lives increase in his game. The list of such games is long.
Most of the games by children that have deducted money from the accounts of the parents include fighting games. Children first get addicted to these games. Then the kids are forced to buy them to get the lure of good weapons and earn points. They do not know how much money will be spent from the parents’ account.
What is Garena Free Fire Games?
Most of the kids are showing craze for free fire game to withdraw money from parents bank account. It can be installed for free from both Google Play Store and Apple App Store. It has been downloaded more than 100 million times from the Play Store. After the update on different smartphones, its size goes up to 2GB. It is specially designed for kids who love fighting.
How do kids make transactions?
We have two experts about it Ritu Maheshwari (Cyber Security and Cloud Computing) And Manish Khatri (Technology Expert) talked to. Both of them also told from the transactions that happen during the games to the ways to avoid it.
- Ritu Maheshwari told that whenever we make payment from online platform, then it saves our debit card, credit card details. These software have online key loggers. In such a situation, this data gets fed there. This also reduces the security of the data. Due to this, there is a danger of withdrawing money from the account not only from the gaming app but also from other apps. Many apps also contain Trojans or other malware. They install in the phone and steal your data.
- Manish Khatri said that if the user has ever purchased any app from the Google Play Store, then the data of the credit or debit card paid is saved in it. In such a situation, whenever we next buy an app from Google Play Store, it automatically comes to your card payment mode. In such a situation, if the child knows the CVV of your card, then they can easily do the transaction. You have added another payment platform and children know its PIN, then the transaction can be done from there as well.
How to stop kids from paying
- Both experts have advised that children should be kept away from online gaming, as most of the cases of transactions with children happen during games. It is better to let the kids play offline games or keep the phone’s internet data turned off or password protected.
- Parents should set their credit card limit. Especially for international transactions, the limit should be increased from 500 to 1000 rupees. So that the children are not able to spend a large amount on any international transaction by mistake. Increase the limit as and when you need it.
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