Was the someone who scammed the Piecoin your talking about "cryptoman87" that has a " Newbie account". Number one rule never get info from someone with a Newbie account and never send coins to some with a newbie account that Registered on:
July 31, 2017 and only shows 5 post to there account
I think cryptoman87 was not involved.
Some people say the person who seems to be the most likely culprit:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2148284.msg21489870#msg21489870If you want to know the actual situation, you should join with Discord and send message to admin or moderator team.