Cynical me says "It's only a scam - who'd bother to engineer it properly to scale and still produce 'accurate' data? Just 'guess' (ie: rand();) vaguely believable numbers and display them."
big
big
On the other hand, I suspect my "federal" (.au) is different from your "federal" (assuming .us), and if _I_ were operating this scam the servers "federal" would be different again (and I'd ensure that my victi^h^h^h^hcustomers "federal" never intersected with my own...)
big