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Teenager Confuses Google AdWords with AdSense. Owes Google $120,000
- user5994461 10y agoSummary: The parents arranged a bank account for their child to play with. He went on to create an AdWord account and spent $120000 in ads. The payments were blocked. The article lacks details in the end: It seems that the bank called the parents, google blocked the account and already refunded the money.
- robbyt 10y agoAdult man confuses products with similar names. Searches Google for answer, becomes more confused. Gives up.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> a 12-year-old Spanish teenager That's a preteen, not a teenager. (The whole article seems to just be a -- sometimes clumsy or inaccurate, as with the above quoted line -- direct translation of much of the source article. [0]) [0] http://tecnologia.elpais.com/tecnologia/2016/10/04/actualidad/1475578401_460930.html http://tecnologia.elpais.com/tecnologia/2016/10/04/actualida...
- oneloop 10y agoSomething is strange with this story. On adwords, to spend money and only be charged at the end of the month you have to be accepted into monthly billing. You have to apply for it. It's not something that you do by accident because you confused adwords with adsense.
- trentlott 10y agoHe put in bank information, assuming that he would be getting +$$$, which looks like and uses the same system (or similar enough if you're 12) as the method for -$$$. I'm not shocked a 12 year old, dreaming of easy internet monetization, didn't pore over the fine print. > [family says] the company (Google) only asked for a bank account number and a name, without any more requisites. . .The account was already in red numbers when the bank called the parents to alert them.
- oneloop 10y agoYes, and I'm calling bullshit on that. The issue isn't confusing + with -, it's everything else. Credit limits, setting up campaigns "by accident" etc etc. The story is bullshit. Either didn't happen, or wasn't an accident.