An SMS quiz was advertised on TV with great prizes and ridiculously easy questions. Each message you received cost 15 kroner. You could receive up to 333 messages in a month. Worst case – it costs you 4,995 kroner every month. Who won?
Source: mobilen.no
You don’t become violent by playing computer games. Perhaps not particularly smart either. But you are influenced. And some games influence you more than others. In the game Anarchy Online, you’re encouraged to drink Coca-Cola and drive a Toyota. Funcom, who created the game, was well paid by the large companies to use their brand names in the game.
Source: Forbrukerportalen.no
The parents were shocked to discover that their 12-year-old son had decorated a room for 6,000 kroner on the Habbo Hotel website. He had bought the money with his mobile phone. «These TVs cost 30 Habbo coins each. These crocodiles cost 20. I didn’t think I had spent so much money,» says the boy, while pointing at the screen at what he had bought.
Habbo Hotel is an online community with over 75 million users around the world. It’s free to join but it’s possible to spend lots of money once you’re a member. With the simple click of a button, you can buy Habbo coins with your mobile phone. Six Habbo coins cost 15 kroner.
Source: VG
