17 backers contributed over $4,000 each

The game Gridiron Thunder, to date, has raised $78,229, surpassing its goal by over $3,000. When Joystiq announced the news, one reader decided something was wrong. With just 125 backers, most on reasonably low tiers, reader "louiedog" calculated 17 backers had individually contributed over $4,000 to the project. Joystiq then discovered via Kickstarter tracker Kicktraq that the majority of the funding came on four days, where it appears round pledges totaling $10,000 and $25,000 were made.

Backers include a woman who has been reported as missing since 2011

It's also alleged that another game, Elementary, My Dear Holmes!, is also suspect. Although there are no strange large donations, Fanboys Anonymous looked into some of the project's mystery backers, discovering they included "celebrities such as Iron Chef's Cat Cora, Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, and, most heinously, a woman who has been reported as missing since 2011."