"If it turns out to be a scam"

Oh, come on! They have a counterfeit news history leading back to 2012. They claimed to have 150 000 users in 2014 although the site came online in January 2015.

And according to a thread in Litecointalk they had fake employee photos stolen elsewhere from the net. The site layout is stolen from DigitalOcean.

No need to wait for the payouts to stop until this can be called a scam.