Is there a new PPP hustle going around?

Apparently there are a lot of people who didn't have a business prior to March 2020 getting PPP loans as sole proprietors and independent contractors. A good friend of mine, who lives in a low income community, called me over the weekend asking me what I knew about PPP and if he should apply. I asked him if he had a business, and he said no, but that doesn't matter. He said a lot of people around his area have been getting them lately after meeting with a CPA setting them up as a sole proprietor barber or farmer and that they are getting 20k and it would be forgiven if they pay themselves.

I started looking into various PPP sites to see who has gotten them and sure enough, there have been a ton of sole proprietor loans given out in the last month or two to people, and the dead giveaway was the people with the same last name.

Example, I searched Gatlin and found this:
Searched the name Gatlin

Try searching richardson, then scroll to the bottom so you get more recent loan information. You will see an interesting trend of first names that makes you start to believe what my buddy told me.

Those are the only two names I've tried so I stopped to get OT input. Is this a thing or am I trippin balls?