CHILDREN who play hit video game Fortnite are being targeted by bank-raiding cyber-crooks.

Parents are being warned that the game has become a "hunting ground for scammers" looking to steal your cash – by taking aim at gamer kids.

Fortnite is one of the world's most popular video games with hundreds of millions of players around the world – many of them children .

Normally scammers target adults because they're the ones with money .

But Fortnite allows crooks to target more vulnerable children, as it gives them a route to parents' bank accounts, cybersecurity giant McAfee is warning.

"Millions of younger gamers pack its servers every month – along with fair share of scammers who want to target them both in and out of the game," said McAfees Jasdev Dhaliwal.

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