To one’s amazement FarmVille seems to soon joining list of internet addiction when a 12 year old boy in UK had received a 1400 dollar FarmVille debt. Of that amount, he had the debt of $400 from his own saving and other $1000 billed to his perturbed mother’s credit card.

This entire debt amounting to about $1400 USD was volume only during about two weeks’ worth of game. In this Popular Facebook game a player can spend out real money as to collect and gain virtual currency and items. It’s a business that’s booming enough to garner the game’s developer Zynga to reach an estimated valuation of $ 5 billion.

Neither Zynga nor the mother’s credit card company HSBC responded in humble manner to return the funds and only possibility of a criminal proceeding can only make an eligibility to return back that amount of money. A spokesperson for HSBC told that “had the expenditures been on a gambling site the escalating transactions would have raised warning flags, but since the purchases were technically Facebook Credits, they didn’t warrant suspicion.”