it's not much of a lie though, iocoin, is simply a pump and dump.
And again, where's the proof? As there even were no premined coins, can you tell me who's the operator of that scheme?
The proof is in the lack of infrastructure. There's no merchants that accept I0coins/Ixcoins, or any charitable organizations for that matter. The only purpose of these coins are to exchange them for BTC.
Wow. Let me think a minute... How many merchants there were accepting Bitcoins when it did originate? I mean, there's no-one that did premine huge amount of coins to offer bounties for all that stuff. You do expect people to set all that up in day, for free? That definitely does not make it a pump and dump scheme.