Facebook's "Friendly Fraud" Against Children

This story looks pretty bad:

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Facebook made a decision. Company policy was to tell game developers to let children spend money without their parents’ permission, according to an internal memo circulated within the company. The memo stated, “Friendly Fraud – what it is, why it’s challenging, and why you shouldn’t try to block it.” “Friendly fraud” is the term Facebook used when children spent money on games without their parent’s permission.

The details are pretty shocking. One underaged girl disputed her charges:

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Gillian: It’s $6,545 – but card was just added on Sept. 2. They are disputing all of it I believe. That user looks underage as well. Well, maybe not under 13. Michael: Is the user writing in a parent, or is this user a 13ish year old Gillian: It’s a 13ish yr old. says its 15. looks a bit younger. she* not its. Lol. Michael: … I wouldn’t refund

Note the part about how the card was just added Sept 2. The two Facebook employees were discussing this on September 19. So an underaged girl (whether she was under 13 or not) rang up over $6,000 in charges related to a game in about 2 weeks, and Facebook decided not to refund the money?

via International Skeptics Forum http://bit.ly/2CHPc2V