[luckylion]

They're not about "the establishment" and "worthy recipients" though, they are ordinary criminals, which is great news for "the establishment", because the people that want to scam people or phish info etc are usually quite aware that they wouldn't be able to do that if it wasn't for "the system" at large operating at a very stable level.

It's more lucrative and much safer to be a criminal in a stable, advanced society with lots of laws and regulation and little social mobility than being a criminal in Somalia. Successful criminals don't want to see society end or even change massively, they are doing fine.

[vmception]

yeah, I'm just pointing out the Pentagon's creative writing prompt adds an unnecessary reason to something already quite prevalent, suggesting they don't even know it is prevalent.