I could see trusting a third party. I don't see how a trusted shop would cooperate in a theft scheme. But, who will pay for the shop to do the work, much less take exacting measurements that are more or less already known - bottom bracket shell = 68mm x 1.37, or x 35mm, or x 36mm, etc.

So, I could see it not being a scam, i just don't see where the money comes from and/or why?

Edit: the differences in road bike measurements for practical building purposes are minute. Things are pretty standard, and Velo Base is already a good catalog for uncommon or rare parts. Sheldon brown has a bb database for cranksets. Seems like this project might be best incorporated into something existing, like Velobase. If you have funding, why not funnel it towards greatly expanding Velo Base with the sort of data you want to see collected?