It seems that each time Rockstar holds a generous promotion to give back to the players of Grand Theft Auto Online, something goes wrong on the technical side of things. In the past, prior events to hand out in-game currency haven't occurred on time, sometimes people don't receive anything (while others get it multiple times) and even once, players were charged for a "free" car.
Rockstar currently has multiple irons in the fire, with a free GTA$ 250,000 bonus and 10% "tax rebate" scheduled to go out a few days from now, as well as a Shark Card purchase bonus which gets you more GTA$ for the same amount of cash and which is supposed to operate in real-time. Different card tiers get you different percentage bonuses, but it does make the prospect of buying into the microtransactions all the more enticing.
However, things have all gone bonkers.
A bunch of players are reporting strange money deposits from Rockstar in odd amounts, while others who should have received bonuses didn't. Making matters worse is other players who, upon seeing something was amiss started spreading false reports as well, for... whatever strange reason. We don't see what they stand to gain from this, as any attempt to rake in cash from Rockstar Support based on false claims won't work.
