> I don't think taking in billions via fraud to donate some of it to charity is a net positive on society.

it could be though, if by first centralizing those billions, you could donate more effectively than the previous holders of that money could. the fraud victims may have never donated in the first place, or have donated to the wrong thing, or not enough to make the right difference.

"The ends justify the means" is a terrible, and terribly dangerous, argument.