When a reward is taken back
Attribution and reviewA grant is reversed if the referral turns out not to have been genuine.
Earned storage can be withdrawn after it has been granted. This is not a penalty applied casually — it covers the cases where the grant should never have been made.
When it happens
- The referred account turns out to be a duplicate of the referrer.
- The account was created to farm rewards rather than to use the service.
- The referred account is closed or disabled for abuse.
- The qualifying transfer is found to have been manufactured for the purpose.
What a clawback does
The extra storage is removed. If that puts your library over its limit, nothing is deleted — you go over quota and cannot add new transfers until you are back under.
Note: Genuine referrals are not clawed back because the person you invited stopped using gettor. That is the grant running down naturally, which is a different thing.