Chess.com's Tradewise Gibraltar Masters (With Prize Money)

I am utterly sad to tell you that misfortune has struck the tournament, in the shape of a scam by the donor of the prize money. The man who had offered to donate some prize money for the tournament says he can no longer give us money, which means the promised prize money will not be received by any player in this tournament. I am ashamed of both him and myself, but I hope you can understand and to be fair chess.com does not support TD having prize money for Online Chess Tournaments, which means I probably would get banned if I did give the winner any money. 

Y.S

Mattias Nilsson