'There were over 100 charges': 15-year-old gamer nephew caught spending $1500 on in-game purchases using his uncle's stolen credit card info, Mom defends her lying son

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Feb 11, 2025 6:00 AM EST

Gaming can get expensive—especially when you're an unsupervised child with Mommy or Daddy's credit card. This 15-year-old was happy to spend his uncle's money on his gaming, but when the swift hand of justice came around, he quick saved and bailed before the final boss.

While it behooves many parents to think the best of their children, when a non-gaming adult discovers 100's of PlayStation charges on their credit card, perhaps it's time to start considering plausible alternatives. It's possible that your little angel child is spending $25 on in-game purchases that make their character look like a glow stick or maybe there's a new treasurebox that can only be unlocked through an online DLC. I understand giving your kid the benefit of the doubt when it comes to tomfoolery, but this uncle caught his nephew red-handed stealing from the family cookie jar. 

Read on for the full story that'll leave non-gamers baffled at the expenses that can rack up to make your Fortnite character do a sassy little front flip at the end of each game. 

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    It's really enticing to spend money in a game—I get it, I play games too. However, when you know you're spending someone else's money, perhaps you should have a twinge of guilt know that they've gone for months without correcting you. And by the time you're a clever teenager capable of taking advantage of whatever sap gave you their credit card, you're old enough to own up to your mistakes… All 1,500 of them.

  • So let me start off with I'm pretty bad at checking the details on my bank statements, but recently something wasn't right. So I went through every single one for the past year, and there were over 100 charges from PlayStation. I
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  • only had 4 purchases on my 2 PS accounts in a single year, so I panicked as someone had my cc info. In all, the total charges were around 1500. I contacted both of my siblings who's kids also have
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  • accounts and asked nicely if their kids may have purchased anything using my bank account before i make a dispute. Both said no, so I went ahead and called both PS and my bank. The bank was able to chargeback past few months and rest is under investigation.
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  • Well a few days later I get a frantic call from my teenage nephew who says his PS account was perma banned. I asked him if he was sure he didn't buy anything with a cc after I gave him a several hundred dollars PS giftcard for his birthday this summer to spend on stuff, he again denied.
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  • So I have his email logins and sure enough, it was purchases he made to his account. All the stuff he plays. Then he starts to say maybe he bought a few items here and there.
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  • Now my sister is pied at me. She says I must have added my cc info to buy him something at some point in time, and it was all my fault he was making purchases from my card. If it were her cc, she'd get an alert.
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  • Never that he may have taken my cc info, no. She doesn't want him to lose his account, and said she'll call PS to pay for it all. She said he always asks and she gets alerts and doesn't understand that I didn't, so I shouldn't blame him.
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  • I said well he knew he was spending someone else's money, so why is it my fault? And that he stopped asking her for permission to make purchases because no one stopped him. After that she said I was blaming her kid for everything. So AITA here?
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  • EmceeSuzy You are NTA and I am really worried for your nephew. His mother is completely incompetent and she seems determined to send her boy out into the world without even the most basic ethics and standards.
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  • You are not going to change her. She just doesn't have the intelligence and morals to make reasonable choices or to treat people with the most basic respect. I would not interact with her.
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  • jcgreen_72 She's also wanting to teach her son that his actions should have no consequences by laying the blame on you. Don't let her. He did this. He knew it wasn't his money to spend, yet he did it, repeatedly, over several months/years. He deserves to be punished for that! And not just by losing his PS account. NTA
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  • Jessie Colt If your sister comes back at you, tell her you /specifically/ asked the family if any of them were the ones who made the charges before you disputed them. No one admitted to it, so your only conclusion was that someone stole your CC
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  • information and racked up the charges, so you had no choice but to dispute the charges. Your nephew is not only a thief, but a liar too. It is now up to your sister and nephew to resolve the issue with PS by repaying the disputed
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  • charges along with any fees that they are going to get hit with for the disputes. Your sister is right about one thing, though, YOU need to lock down your activity. Most CC's and banks have options to add
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  • notifications of charges so that you get an alert whenever there are charges made. You need to go enable that option on every card you have and account that you have. You should also probably review your credit reports as well and then lock those also as preventative measures.
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