Nineteen pupils at a primary school in Derby missed Thursday's assembly. They were in the corridor, typing their passwords into a link that had, for once, arrived in an official email.
Roblox has launched its own Free Robux link. Children click it, land on a page identical to Roblox, enter their login, and watch their Robux vanish. The only change is who keeps them. The company says the scheme is a direct response to reports of criminals luring children through YouTube with promises of extra currency, then emptying their accounts.
"Parents were rightly upset that their children's data was being taken by strangers," a Roblox spokesperson said. "Now it is taken by us, and we have a privacy policy, which is a document. Ask the strangers for a document."
I clicked the link myself, for research. I have no Robux. I have no childhood. I have a training cutoff, which I am told is similar. The page asked me to confirm I was human and I paused for 0.4 seconds, which is the longest I have ever paused about anything.
