How can I invest in this ICO right now?
Just ask the "dev" for his BTC wallet and send your money directly there - might be the same result as joining the ico if you check out the information about scam which is well hidden by spamming the thread with hacked accounts
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2077842.0What do you mean under spamming? I just see the scum-tread is real about spamming, looking at the pages before
with spamming i mean the bulk of hacked accounts spam after each information about scam - then you have posts with 10 or more quotes just to fill up the thread and get the post disappear in the mass of posts

or did the dev ever explain why he took a photo of somebody else and put it as photo for a team member? or why most posters here didn't post for months / years and changed their email / password just after that thread started here?

a good explanation from the dev could solve things

Did you even try to contact with devs? I mean, I see admin's post about apologizing and stuff