Is there any clarity on these spam accusations that have been filed?
What are you talking about?
I have read other user's commenting that this fork is just to steal your private keys and your monero
Aside from the really suspicious airdrop, then it comes to this:

You can clearly see from this picture, which is from this article:
https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/03/01/monero-hard-forks-to-monerov-in-mid-march/They have hired bots to spread how "awesome" is this "new coin". I wouldn't touch MoneroV with a 10 meter stick.