I don't think it's scam. It is just very outdated code and it's not ready to handle the recent peaks.
Maybe we can call it a bubble

During last days the coin received attention thanks to a price pump. I was aware of the problems and was pointing out the bad status of the code. My larger transfers took literally days, not speaking about variations in difficulty when mining. I decided to leave Aeon completely although it has some potential. Now I am focused on Sumokoin that is also a monero fork and looks like it has a very dedicated team of developers and fair community.

All the best to Aeon, hopefully someone at some point in time will fix it. At the moment it's just broken.
Not trying to troll here. I know that smooth invested time into some fixes, but the whole process wasn't very professional, sorry. I lost my trust in coin that has to rollback and fixes are not verified on testnet before going public.
Not speaking about ongoing bullshit - it cannot be a light version of monero due to extensive memory requirements. Howgh.