Respectfully, what would be the point of this "scam"?  I admit that all of these details strung together don't look very good.  Still though, it hardly seems worth it to go through all of this marketing, website, white paper, etc. for such a small amount of money.  The big sell off on Yobit was nearly 9,500,000 LTCP volume at ATH 170 satoshi which is barely more than a US penny per.  So assuming we overestimate everything to make it as valuable a "scam" as possible, they still went through all this work for less than 100K USD.  That's quite a bit of $, but they would've stood to make a lot more if they saw this through and kept hyping it until just before the April 21st fork.  No?