Lad, 14, loses family’s life savings after lavishing gifts on sexy cyber ‘hostesses’ who seduced him while he was hooked on computer games
The 14-year-old, whose family were already living in a tiny basement, was seduced by the women, who are hired to promote online games by flirting with users
A TEENAGE boy has blown his parents' entire life savings lavishing virtual gifts on beautiful online "hostesses".
The 14-year-old, whose family already lived in a basement, was seduced by the women, who are hired to promote online games by flirting with users.
Xiao Ming managed to squander £3,429 in just under two months to buy virtual gifts for five hostesses - which his parents had spent years saving up.
He got addicted in October when he started speaking to the female online-streaming hostesses who promote in-game purchases.
The five young women he spoke to convinced him to purchase items to improve his virtual characters.
But Xiao Ming also spent his parents' cash to buy gifts for the hostesses to impress them.
Xiao Ming, who lives in Lishui City in East China's Zhejiang Province, said the online-streaming hostesses were his only friends, adding: "They spoke to me every day. I thought of them as my true friends."
His hardworking parents, who rarely supervise his online behaviour, only found out the boy had been splashing cash online when they received a lengthy bank statement saying they had just 1p left in their account.
Mum and da Xu Yongwen, 43, and Liu Bang, 39, were horrified and now fear there is little they can do to get the money back.
Xu was quoted as saying: "These online hosts have no social morality and only know how to seduce these naive youths."
The angry dad has vowed to do everything he can to get the cash back - no matter how hard it may be.
He also threatened to sue the hostesses for taking advantage of his boy.
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