[mountainb]

Not as uncommon as you think. Many people realize without knowing much about the law that breaking the law can be a great business plan. They just converge upon ideas that are illegal naturally and unperturbed by the potential problems.

Ironically this is also a bit of an entrepreneurial advantage. A trained corporate management drone will be aware of all the bad things that can happen and has been paper trained by lawyers to be frightened of doing anything illegal. The sweet spot is when it's something that's just slightly illegal or just a matter of civil law, but the danger zone is in something like this which is just fraud.