if it's illegal or not doesn't really matter as long as there is no proof that you actually were in this group. I mean if just buying a coin when the market price raises would be suspicious how could a normal person avoid to get suspected?

But even for those who get ripped off I have no pity. I mean you invest in a highly volatile kind of currency like bitcoin than you go further and change the btc to another "currency" which actually can't and probably will never be spent on any good but has the market cap. of may be a small village, what could one expect to happen?

The only shame is that it's inhibit a growth in reputation to the whole cryptomarket. I mean, imagine someone new and uncertain to cryptos enters this board and everything he sees is some fraud warning for nearly each possibility it could happen. I don't think this person will get a trustworthy image of cryptos and probably decide not to us it... but off course, when i hear of a large groupe like that those people don't even expect the cryptos to arrive in real world...