An elderly couple were flabbergasted after their granddaughter racked up a £3,000 bill playing online games during lockdown - initially fearing they'd been hacked.
Eight-year-old Abby had been inadvertently buying items and upgrades on a gaming platform, unaware she was blowing through grandparents Liz and Jim Harrison's actual savings.
They have slammed platform operator Robolox for not getting authorisation from them as the bill payers, with the payments having "left us with nothing", they told the Daily Record.
The pensioners had allowed the schoolgirl to sign up to the platform to keep her busy at home in lockdown in Alloa, in Clackmannanshire in the Central Lowlands of Scotland.
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