Nine-Year-Old Girl Books Disneyland Trip After Guessing Dad's Paypal Password

Attention parents and guardians: make sure your Paypal password isn't obvious or simple.

One tech-savvy nine-year-old girl from Immingham, Lincolnshire, gave her father a bone-chilling shock after blowing roughly $1,300 on a dream trip to Disneyland Paris.

Ian Wilson, the child's father, was fast asleep when his daughter, Susan, got ahold of his phone and began a little midnight shopping spree (well, maybe not so little) after figuring out his Paypal password.

Dishing out the benjamins, Susan spent over $500 on flights and a hotel gift card, another $300 on a VIP trip to the Eiffel Tower and just shy of another $500 on park tickets and the Disneyland Express train, the Daily Mail reported.

The 53-year-old father only discovered the transaction had taken place three days after the fact on October 27, when he realized there was a big chunk of change missing from his bank account.

"My immediate thought was that it was fraud so I phoned PayPal who told me the the payments had been made from a device they deemed normal for me and did not consider it to be fraud," Wilson told MailOnline. "That's when I went through my phone history and found all these websites in my internet history. I asked Susan and she said it was her."

Speaking to The Mirror, Wilson indicated that he didn't "think Susan really realized the enormity of what she had done," before adding that "she's sorry and promised 10 [pence] to help pay it back."

Ten pence is roughly the equivalent of 13 cents, but hey, the kid has got to start somewhere, right?

There was some good news to be had, though. Wilson managed to get a refund after asking both his bank holder and Paypal to consider what poor lil' Susan done did to his wallet.

To all the parents out there, Wilson has just one recommendation: "Have a pin on your phone."

This is nothing.

Across from my classroom, were 2 separate classrooms for autistic kids; B4 they *mainstreamed* the students; One group was K-3; other older kids 4-6.

In the *older* group, was a very handsome, nice, cooperative boy, Jamal. His dad was very involved with his education; a rarity in the ‘hood. Jamal had never spoken a word in his little life; he was about 11y/o at the time.

My first-born was volunteering in the computer lab, next door, to put ‘puters working again. He brought a MS *Magic Schoolbus* program, and loaded it for the SE classes. Jamal and his classsmates were hooked on it.

One day, Jamal saw my son in hallway and ran into his arms and said to him *Magic Schoolbus*!!! His first words!! [I’m quite sure, Jamal was hoping he would get a *special privilege* of coming in to play on the computer]. We were all astonished. Floored, to put it mildly.

His teacher, as part of the the morning exercises, would review the day of the week, weather, calendar w/ important dates...yada. Then she would get the kids to talk about the upcoming dates. [Jamal dates were recognized by the teacher.]

Through Jamal’s father, she had learned dad was going [alone] to Jamaica, to visit his ailing mother on a day in November. Teacher put Jamal’s dad’s travel dates on the calendar of upcoming *events*. This date was cemented into his little brain. daily

Well, it turns out Jamal used his new-found language and computer skills to book a flight and hotel for himself, on the exact dates and times his father had planned.

Jamal took a credit card from his dad’s wallet. Dad found out when he saw the charges on his bill. LOL

This little tale from the world of autism will always stay with me.

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