I don't know if there was more malice behind this, but if FortuneJack knew verusfides was a plinko player and had a good plinko win coming up from his seed, they might have wanted him to win using "fake balance" to avoid paying out a large win.
This seems like a conspiracy theory at best, do you really think they are monitoring players like that? Especially ones who make a 0.009
BTC deposit?