For those who cheat or attempt to cheat in Grand Theft Auto Online will now be familiar with the updated and more secure transaction system in place. This system not only protects the in-game economy from illegitimate car sales or attempts to purchase items cheaper, it now also records all incoming out outgoing transactions in your virtual bank account. And the most surprising factor of all, even dropping cash to bolster your pockets are also recorded.
After researching this system heavily, I will now provide an explanation for each part of the system and its used. For the most part, this system is harmless to those who drop a small amount of cash here and there but for those who are excessive about it, don't realize they're illegitimate bolster of GTA$ is being tracked.
Rather than showing an error message specified in the standard GXT2 language file, the response is delivered from the server and attached to a hash header for verification. Each transaction carries an integrity check in the response.
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This error message is the standard transaction check. It first performs a check against the pre-defined local values for the transaction type (selling vehicles, purchasing clothing items etc.) and then consults the server for a realtime check on the purchase. The server responds with an integrity check and the game accepts or rejects the attempt. The label 'Transaction Pending' in the corner of the screen is displayed during this swift process. This does not add a ban flag to the account but each and every bag collected records on the user TMA log.
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This error message is shown when the standard transaction check passes but the system detects a fraudulent purchase. It will refund whatever you spent on the item and if you were cheeky enough to change the item price to FREE, it'll deduct 10% of the actual item purchase. So, advice when changing item prices is to always do it above FREE so you don't get a 10% surcharge if it backfires, which it 99.9% will. This does not add a ban flag the account but the balance of your bank was adjusted based on any illegitimate/unbalanced transactions.
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This error message is shown when the player attempts to alter the response from the server in an attempt to circumvent the transaction check. Each response carries a CRC hash in the header. This will not add a ban flag to your account and is not logged anyway, the modified server response is simply failing because of the check, a bit like the fix for BG.RPF using hash headers.
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This error message is not normally shown unless the player has modified the vehicle prices locally and attempted to repeat the change via memory as well. Remember the server has pre-defined values for all existing in-game items. Local values don't mean much to the checks. This will not add a ban flag to your account but the transactions are still logged.
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This error message is not normally shown unless the player has attempted to locally modify the price index data and failed the looped memory hash strategy. In addition to failing the check, it does mean a ban could follow as this issues a flag. You are, however refunded whatever you spent on the item before the check failed despite passing first time round. You aren't charged 10% on these purchases, luckily. You are kicked and sometimes banned shortly after. If you see this message, please shutdown the game ASAP so it has a chance of not sending the updated save data containing the review flag. This message is a blessing in some respects as you know when you've been busted and should run before it catches up with your ill-gotten-gains... get it? This will issue a ban flag, the player is recommended to quit the game client ASAP when seeing this message.
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