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Something 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.

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He 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.

Yes, 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.

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