Boy spends £900 on Facebook game Farmville

Apr 8 2010 By Carla Callaghan

A 12-YEAR-OLD boy was so hooked on building his farmville farm that he spent a whopping £625 of his mother's money and £288 of his own playing the virtual farm game.

The boy who started buying the farmville coins in an attempt to improve his virtual farm had soon racked up a £900 bill after frequently playing the game and buying the coins.

His mother was stunned when she opened her credit card bills, she said: "'The total spend is about £905, but the credits are still rolling in. Facebook and game creator Zynga will not refund anything as my son lives in my house."

She added: "Facebook has disabled his account and Zynga has unhelpfully suggested I use password protection on computers in the future."

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