Five-year-old girl ‘borrows’ her mom’s cell to go on $3,000 Amazon shopping spree

A girl racked up a bill for nearly $4,000 on her mother’s credit card from an unauthorized online shopping spreeleverage five pink motorcycles, ten pairs of cowboy boots, and a giant motorized jeep before nearly giving his mother a coronary.

The culprit, five-year-old Massachusetts resident Lila Nunes, managed to escape punishment, but not after earning the well-earned ire of her mother Jessica.

Recounting the ordeal in an interview, Jessica explained how the young woman pulled it off and nearly scooped her out of $3,922.

“She asked to use my cell phone,” he told Today, after brandishing boxes of some of the illegally acquired goods as evidence of his daughter’s cheeky stunt in a video interview with another outlet in his hometown of Westport.

Thinking she wanted to play games on the device, Jessica dismissed it, but soon received a late-night message from Amazon notifying her of the extreme spending.

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The culprit, five-year-old Massachusetts resident Lila Nunes, managed to escape punishment, but not after earning her mother’s ire.

“I went through my day thinking about nothing until my phone rang at 2am the next morning alerting me to an order shipped from Amazon,” he told the station.

Opening the notification, she quickly realized that there had been a lot of unexplained activity on her account and that her credit card had already been charged for the series of purchases she didn’t recognize.

Upon closer inspection, he noted that all of the items were products that a small child could buy, especially if they were unsupervised and had access to the necessary funds.

But only when he checked the time of the purchases was he able to correctly identify the perpetrator.

“She ordered five pink motorcycles, five blue motorcycles, 10 pairs of cowboy boots and a jeep,” Jessica told local CBS affiliate WAFB-9 in a video interview outside the family’s home. home friday.

Recalling how she had given the five-year-old her phone to play the night before, she told the station how she used her deduction skills to unmask her daughter as the mystery shopper.

‘He had looked back at that time. It was around 9:30, which is exactly when we were in the car,” she said.

Turning to her daughter, who seemed remarkably blameless but also ducked her head at points as her mother exposed her offenses, she commented, “So it wasn’t fraudulent.” It was just this one.

“She asked to use my cell phone,” he said Friday, brandishing boxes of some of the illegally acquired goods as evidence of his daughter’s cheeky stunt.

“She ordered five pink motorcycles, five blue motorcycles, 10 pairs of cowboy boots and a jeep,” Jessica told local CBS affiliate WAFB-9 in an interview outside the family’s home on Friday.

Thinking she wanted to play games on the device, Jessica dismissed it, but soon received a late-night message from Amazon notifying her of the extreme spending.

He went on to recount the complete damage to the parade of items that, thanks to Amazon’s fast shipping, arrived at his doorstep in less than two days.

The bikes and Jeep cost around $3,180. The boots alone cost around $600,’ Jessica said, before revealing how she tried to return the expensive items, but was prevented due to their high cost.

“Originally, these were not returnable,” the mother said, describing how she frantically called the company’s customer service line. at two in the morning that night to see if they could find a solution.

“I was like, ‘Please, is there anything we can do?'” she recalled.

Eventually, after some pleading, she said representatives took pity on her plight and were forced to send her return labels for the bulkier items, which were still at her home Friday when she spoke to the two news stations.

The transactions on the cowboy boots, he said, were canceled as soon as they left the warehouse.

As for the giant two-seat Jeep, which as of Friday had not yet arrived, he said ‘I couldn’t cancel the order, but they’re going to let me return it.’

Since then, Lila’s impromptu spending has grabbed national headlines, with several outlets since turning up at her Westport home to ask how she did it.

The youngster’s scheme nearly took the mother’s $3,922, but she said she is using it as a teaching experience for the five-year-old.

As for a prospective punishment, Jessica said she is forgoing such a course of action to use the incident as a learning experience.

“I told her maybe if she acts nice and behaves and does some chores around the house, we can get her a bike that’s more in her age range, a little slower maybe,” Jessica said of the scare. .

Meanwhile, Lila told the station how she slyly gave orders: “Just push the yellow button and push the brown button.”

When asked why she committed the crime, the young woman, with a slight smile, explained: “Because I wanted one.”