There is a possibility this could have been a test run to maybe see how viable it is to exploit the points system to get a proposal passed.
But a bit of math would have made it clear it's not viable without 100k or more accounts all farming points like crazy.
and even then the exploit is now public and can be patched and mitigated now so generally it seems at least in our eyes completely pointless.
unless the scammer knows of other methods we have yet to figure out that they can now try exploit to a larger extent? Either way it'll get caught quickly regardless so any attempt to get DHF fund illegitimately will not net you all that much maybe 1 or 2 payouts since they happen hourly. depending on the daily pay it could be a lot or nothing.
They would never have got funding, and whenever you do things on such a large scale it's bound to trigger alarms.
It was a fresh idea, but that was bound to fail. Even Ecency account don't have a lot of HP to delegate so the proposal would have never passed without the support of many big whales.