Indian teenager spends Rs.16 lakh on PUBG

A teenager near the Indian city of Chandigarh has spent an amount of Rs.16 lakh on popular online game PUBG.

According to reports, the 17-year-old spent the money buying upgrades for the PUBG as the game has a number of micro transactions that allow cosmetic upgrades.

The boy used to tell his mother that he was using his phone for studies. However, he used his mother’s and father’s bank accounts to carry out online transactions to buy in-game items.

The report suggests that the father is a government employee and has been posted elsewhere while the boy lives with his mother. As per the report, the 17-year old used his mother’s phone to make all the transactions and he deleted the bank messages to make sure no trace is left behind.

The parents had been in the impression that the teenager has been using the smartphone excessively for online studies. However, upon losing over Rs. 16 lakhs, the parents realised that this has not been the case for the past few months. Following the incident, the parents forced the teenager to work at a repair shop to avoid the addiction for PUBG Mobile.

In an interview, the father said, “I just can’t let him sit idle at home and cannot give him a mobile phone even for studying. He is working at a scooter repair shop so that he realises how hard it is to earn money. I am hopeless now as the money was saved for my son’s future.”

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