It would be like three kids going to the candy store, one has two dollars, one has one dollar and the other one is broke. The kid who has two dollars earned that money from working two paper routes. The kid with the dollar earned the money from working one paper route. The kid with no money chose to stay home and play video games, he didn't like getting up so early in the morning. The store owner, assumes that the kid with two dollars has rich parents, the kid with one dollar has rich parents and the kid who has no money is poor through no fault of his own. He proceeds to take one dollar from the the rich kid and 25c from the other rich kid. We now have a lazy good for nothing kid with 1.25 and the other kids have 1.00 and 75c.
Since they know that we would never fall for the above scenario, they have the Newspaper steal the money prior to the kids getting it, that way they have a better chance of pulling off this scam.