Are Your Kids Racking Up Your Credit Card Without You Knowing?

This is scary stuff right here and another reason why you should look over your credit card and cell phone statements very carefully every time they come.

Thanks to tricky in-app purchases, kids are running up huge bills playing supposedly free iPhone and iPad game. While games like Angry Birds and Zombie Takeover can be downloaded for no cost, pop-up messages offering upgrades for a fee sometimes pop up with your kids are playing with any purchases (even those made by mistake) automatically charged to the account holder’s credit card.

One Mom learned this the hard way after her six-year-old son charged more than a thousand bucks playing a game on her iPad!

Some apps require a password in order to make purchases, but come on, we all know the parental control options available on most devices are no match for today’s tech-savvy kids!