1. You open up the Sims Freeplay
2. You touch the bottom arrow on your screen
3. Go to more and click date and time
4. Press date only, and change the year one back only
5. Got to WIFI and click off
6. return to sims and you'll see the error sign
7. Go back to wifi and click on, wait for seconds and then go back to playing
8. When you finally get to your sims it will give you 5,000 simoleons
Hope it helped!