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It looks like getting hacked is a big excuse to rob people's money, they can easily blame it on hack and say 'we are sorry we get hacked' where as they pray for it or have it in mind to hacked themselves .
That is one of the possibilities, and I am sure that there are those who falsely hack themselves in order to end up being victims, who then the majority will not accuse of having stolen their money. Playing on human sympathy is a powerful card, especially nowadays when there are very efficient ways of manipulating information.
99% of all those projects are doomed anyway and I don't understand how naive you have to be to think that you will be happy and find that 1% that might be successful. I would rather give that money to humanitarian purposes or feed the pigeons, which certainly makes a lot more sense.