Same perception on what his motive. Creating a clone of one of the most famous exchange site would only have reason which it might be used on phishing out bittrex users and stole valuable coins.I might be judgemental but this is the only thing comes to my mind.As i read above he dont even have a money exceeding 1 btc for creating a possible exchange which means he do had other plans.If not an exchange then what?
I am wondering how people can be
1) stupid enough to ask something like that in this forum here and
2) too short-minded to actually google how to clone a website, scams don't need a functional backend, do they?

I remember the times where scammer actually had to think about their tactics.
This is just ridicilous how every non-brainer tries to scam/phish people, without even unerstanding what he is doing..
Not to be judgmental as but this is just an obvious way of scamming.He already shows to the public on whats the possible intent on having this kind of query. Cloning something will really give us already the idea on the possible move to be made ahead. You cant really avoid instances that there are really dumb people which they don't even know on what they are doing either they do make theirselves to be obvious into the community. We know scammers do evolve and do things as legit as they can to fool people but this one is different.