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Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 45 points 1 week ago* (4 children)

Why would a $120k spend on a business card (entered by the cardholder on an advertising account under their name) be suspicious?

This doesn't follow the pattern of a stolen card at all.

EDIT: Dad set up the YT brand account using his employer's Google Workspace. He handed all his work emails and sensitive auth to the kid too. Dad is stupid as fuck.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    $120K spent advertising a kid's Minecraft channel is suspicious. The initial flag should just have been for "card not normally used suddenly spending a shit-ton of money—does this look legit?" After that, a ten-second check of what was being advertised would have shown that something was fishy.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    A $120K marketing budget for a single beat of a campaign would match a company with credit cards with limits that large. Usually you don't use a credit card for marketing spending though and your Google bill is paid by a bank account. It should have been flagged but they could be using their company cc's recklessly making this a normal transaction.

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