Is it just me or does it seem like a pointless effort / scam to pay someone to open a channel to your node and then have them set their outbound fees to you for something like 500ppm+. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the inbound liquidity? Is anyone advertising selling inbound connections with zero-base and zero-fee rate?

Since you have no guarantee that traffic will flow through that inbound channel to you at whatever arbitrary rate they set, you might just be paying for someone to create a dead connection to you (or an expensive place for you to pay for circular rebalancing).

Buyer beware.