Reminds me of the excellent folding ideas video on these sort of scams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw

In the video he talks about a course (which is a scam) selling a different scam of getting a ghostwriter to write a crappy book, getting someone else to record it, and then publishing it to audible to make money. which seemingly did work for a short period of time but no longer does. I guess this is the same sort of thing, except cutting out the ghostwriter.