Yup, I think someone already in the forum shown that this project was indeed a scam but i don't remember who it was but just googling it the Mars One project there are so many valid scam accusations about it.
Yes, it is a scam. We do not have the technology to create a self supporting biosphere system on Mars. Neither to jump start any industrial or maintenance of Earth built equipment.
Think in terms of
how to make a fabric, a brick, a metal rod, basic stuff...i agree completely if we cannot even get the basic necessities how is the settlement suppose to be successful
its not surprising though that a scam like these gets attention because who wouldn't want to go live on mars
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if someone or some group took this challenge on, and flat out announced their goal was to put people on the Red Planet. They could then announce progress on the various necessary tasks and ISRU (in situ resource utilization). If people funded that, it is not impossible that one, two or three decades later the answer to the questions of necessities is "Yes, yes and yes."
At such a point in time, then they'd say - "Now all we need is rockets."
That's NOT the difficult part of the equation.