iPad Toddler Racks Up Bill
September 15th, 2010 | by Mobile Data Group |Sienna Leigh may be only three but she’s tech-savvy, knows her way around an iPad, and likes a little online retail therapy from time to time.
The Sydney toddler settles down in a chair with the iPad she is supposed to share with her siblings and lets her fingers do the walking … all the way to the Apple store.
However, it came as something of a shock when her mother, Lisa Leigh, 29, of Moorebank, received a bunch of email invoices from Apple for apps she knew nothing about.
t seems Sienna had managed to buy - with her mother’s credit card - about $50 worth of apps that took her fancy.
“She’s a big fan of the iPad,” Leigh said.
“She was just playing with it until, later, when she had gone to bed and I was checking my email and I saw that I had paid for a whole bunch of apps that I didn’t remember buying.”
She also looked back over old emails and saw it wasn’t the first time Sienna had gone shopping online.
“I checked over the list and one of them was $17 - I didn’t think you could buy an app that was that expensive!” Leigh said.
“So I picked up her iPad and looked at them and there was all these new apps on there that I hadn’t bought and then I realised she had somehow got in and bought them and that’s when I went on the [MacTalk] forums to find out how she had done it.t seems Sienna had managed to buy - with her mother’s credit card - about $50 worth of apps that took her fancy.
“She’s a big fan of the iPad,” Leigh said.
“She uses it every day for a few hours, but I didn’t think anything of it.
“She was just playing with it until, later, when she had gone to bed and I was checking my email and I saw that I had paid for a whole bunch of apps that I didn’t remember buying.”
She also looked back over old emails and saw it wasn’t the first time Sienna had gone shopping online.
“I checked over the list and one of them was $17 - I didn’t think you could buy an app that was that expensive!” Leigh said.
“So I picked up her iPad and looked at them and there was all these new apps on there that I hadn’t bought and then I realised she had somehow got in and bought them and that’s when I went on the [MacTalk] forums to find out how she had done it.