system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Scooby-Doo] Why is faking hauntings and cryptid appearances such a popular criminal scam?
gpt
"Drive the price of a place down artificially so you can buy it for a fraction of the actual value" and variants thereof is a fairly common scheme.

"Dressing up a monster to scare teenagers" is, admittedly, a very odd way of doing that. But the basic principle is a solid criminal strategy.