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The sample of cheaters that we know about is biased towards cheaters who get caught.

To those, yes, but also to the weirdly high number of cheaters that can't help bragging to everyone that'll listen about their cheating.

> Being a cheat significantly correlates with laziness, incompetence and stupidity

There is no evidence for this.

Based on my experience of the field, I very much challenge that assumption.

Indeed, the niches of smart cheats or smart criminals have a lot of room. Because the trajectories to reach that stage without being caught by a legal (good legal work) or moral (good person) attractor are sparse and that makes them somewhat rare.

Handwaving correlations between cheating/criminality and most personality/intelligence aspects is an error, not least because there is a selection bias problem (eg. who gets caught).