This is how the 1% of nodes stays profitable. Noobs paying fees for "useless" transactions. The LN game is PvP, you win by taking other's sats. Nasty or not, its how the game theory of this system works.

https://medium.com/@goryachev/fruit-of-the-loop-the-game-theory-behind-running-a-lightning-node-808506f35edb