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Novelist attacks ‘vile scumbag Kardashian pigs’ for costly game

Ayelet Waldman has a bone to pick with the Kardashians.

The novelist, wife of fellow writer Michael Chabon, is livid at the reigning first family of reality TV after her son lost $120 to the mega-popular smartphone game “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood.”

In a rant that bridged both Facebook and Twitter on Sunday evening, the 49-year-old, who once drew criticism for writing that she loved her husband more than her children, relayed the story of her 11-year-old son Abe’s horrifying realization that he had been bilked for $120 by the game.

“WARNING parents,” she wrote on her Facebook wall. “The Kardashian Hollywood game somehow bypassed our parental in-app purchase controls. Our poor 11 year old spent $120 in 2 days. He’s crying hysterically. He can’t believe he lost so much money. A pox on those vile scumbag Kardashian pigs and their app designers.”

The game, which reportedly makes $700,000 a day, is available for a free download, but includes multiple in-app purchases, which the writer said her son fell victim to.

According to the writer, she and her husband had set up $20-a-month spending limits on their child’s phones, but the game bypassed them and charged the credit card associated with the account after the threshold had been reached and quickly surpassed.

Upon realizing what was happening, Waldman deleted the card from her son’s account, and pleaded with other parents to do the same and to check their children’s phones to see if this had also happened to them.

Fortunately for the mother of four, and her son, the story had a happy ending, with the 11-year-old receiving a refund from Apple.

Also, Waldman pointed out one other unexpected, and very welcome, bonus of the whole fiasco: Her son no longer considers himself a Kardashian fan.