As an example of a "whale," Businessweek described a 15-year-old Game of War player in Belgium who had used his mother's credit card to spend over $41,000 on in-game purchases in the free-to-play game.
以作為一隻「鯨魚」為例，《商業周刊》描述了比利時一名15歲的《戰爭遊戲：火力時代》玩家，他使用他母親的信用卡在該免費遊戲中花了4.1萬美元來購買當中的虛擬物品。