Seems obvious. BTC-e sock puppets have been around for a long time here. Their exchange is two years old. So they scam newbies, especially ones like me who sent them mucho BTC, and they have their shills and sock puppets here with "old" accounts to make the newbs look like dorks... Working it seems with most people who don't realize that age of your account or number of posts have anything to do with credibility. No wonder so many get scammed by BTC-e...