I'm a tad late - nevertheless:
DodgyPutter: I'm not sure I'd have said it's a "scam", certainly misleading, but perhaps it should be described in such a way. I imagine it's there to mislead other players that winning money is possible as so many players have decent "earnings".
This!
"Earning Leaders" is on the front page of wgt.com and misleads passers-by into thinking that $$ can be made by many (1), attracting them into a game where ev1 spends real money, and there is only one or two per year who receive anything worth $$, that is the VUSO winners visiting the next USO.
(1) This is the definition of fraud or scam IMHO.