BFM 89.9

HIGHLIGHTS 
Podcast  >  Evening Edition  >  Evening Edition  >  Daughter Uses Dad's Card For SGD20,000 Worth Of In-Game Purchases

Daughter Uses Dad's Card For SGD20,000 Worth Of In-Game Purchases

Jonathan Leo, Content Director, Kakuchopurei.com

03-Jan-22 19:00

Daughter Uses Dad's Card For SGD20,000 Worth Of In-Game Purchases

A dad in Singapore discovered his daughter had made online transactions worth RM61, 936 to upgrade her avatar in the mobile game Genshin Impact. We look at the details of this discovery and the larger questions around microtransactions in games that this brings up.


Image source: Courtesy of miHoYo

Produced by: Natasha Fusil

Presented by: Lee Chwi Lynn, Sharmilla Ganesan


This and more than 60,000 other podcasts in your hand. Download the all new BFM mobile app.

Categories:  familytechpersonal finance

Tags:  mobile gamesGenshin Impactevening editiongamingonlinebankingsingapore





Play / Pause

Listen now : Best of Enterprise (REPEAT): Battling and Preventing Ransomware: Key Steps to Safeguard...

Today’s Shows



11:00 AM

A Bit of Culture (REPEAT)

Gossip Is A Form of Resilience and Rebellion; Kam Raslan | Na’a Murad | Marion D’Cruz

12:00 PM

I Love KL (REPEAT)

Protect Our Flood Retention Ponds!; Shuhana Shamsuddin, President, Pereka Bandar

1:00 PM

Best of Enterprise (REPEAT)

Battling and Preventing Ransomware: Key Steps to Safeguard Your Business; Datuk Alan See, CEO and Co-Founder, FIRMUS

2:00 PM

Popcorn Culture (REPEAT)

Deadpool & Wolverine + Odd Couples On-Screen

3:00 PM

GGWP (REPEAT)

Empowering Indie Developers With Xbox Game Camp Asia; Chia Jun Shen, Global Expansion Lead (Southeast Asia), Xbox | Suan Goh, Co-founder and Studio Head, CtrlD Studio | Jonathan Tang, Developer, Smooth Brain Game Labs | Vanessa Ong, Developer, Smooth Brain Game Labs

4:00 PM

Pick Of The Pops

Ep553; Patrick Teoh

6:00 PM

The Pulse (REPEAT)

By The Way | Pulse Picks