if he was a scammer i'm pretty sure he would have taken the bitcoins and went to enjoy life instead of getting flamed on irc and forums 24/7..
He doesn't get flamed on IRC. He has his own channel where sycophantic mods kick anyone who is remotely critical.
Spend more time there, there's quite a bit said in the negative. There's a right way to be critical and there's a wrong way. Some people forget that.
That's funny. Quibbling over niceties in speech when millions are lost.
No skin off my back though, as I frequent neither IRC nor BTCST.