It's like the situation where a corporation wants to test and improve their security, so they hire hackers and social engineers to test their systems, but they don't tell the staff.
This makes it all a real, functional test, and then at the end, cops won't put them to jail for successfully breaking into the computers, retrieving data, passwords and such that the corporation doesn't want anyone outside itself to know.
When someone hires you to do a job, there's a paper trail you can refer to, if cops become interested.
The same thing happens when an enormous TV corporation is making a show, and cops become interested in what's happening. They have a huge paper trail, outlining what's going on, plus a track record of 100% honesty with the property. I am sure they even pay for the gas and any damage they might have caused (if you drive someone else's car, you are shortening the 'lifespan' of the car, which is probably also taken into account).
If they don't have an intent to actually stealing anything, intent to actually scam anyone (revealing the scam at the end every time means they aren't really scamming someone), or intent to do any unlawful activity, and in the end, no one is harmed in any way, it's very similar to the 'hiring a hacker' situation. The staff might think the hacker is a criminal, but they don't know their boss actually hired him.
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