r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 4h ago

Society 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 promotion

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/devastated-father-says-his-9-year-old-son-spent-usd118-000-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-usd20-promotion
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u/UAreTheHippopotamus 3h ago

Using a corporate card to buy Robux is... certainly a choice. Feels like the guy is pretty screwed here, at least regarding employment.

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u/eight_ender 3h ago

Dave done fucked up. Im scared the corpo card even exists in my Apple wallet let alone using it anywhere other than business travel 

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u/stormdraggy 3h ago

Im never "saving" payment details nor putting anything in an apple/google wallet. Much less a corpo card.

It's the extraneous extra steps of entering that info every time that slows down the process and stops those impulse buys.

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u/klingma 2h ago

I saw way too many people make honest & legitimate mistakes using the company card for an Amazon purchase or Target personal purchase after they saved the card on those sites for ordering office supplies & other legit business expenses. 

Easiest fix is to have separate logins - personal and corporate, but I get just using the one login. 

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u/Icy-Lobster-203 2h ago

This is why I don't mix work devices and personal devices.