In reality all she ends up doing is committing a bunch of terrible crimes that had zero benefits like drugging and raping Starman and killing one of the Crimson Foxes.
Too Dumb to Live: Boomerang took a program that offered him immense benefits and tried to spin it so he could use it to keep commiting crimes at his leisure under the persona of Mirror Master.
In Teen Wolf, Jackson wants nothing more than to become a werewolf seeing all the fringe benefits, and not really caring about being target to Van Helsing Hate Crimes.