Good job, OP. You probably just saved a ton of newbies from investing in this scam.

The scammers actually attempted to make things harder to reverse search the image, by flipping the profile images horizontally and adding a purple background to them.

It definitely didn't work, though, but it's a trend since I've seen an increased amount of stolen yet photoshopped team member profile pictures which could be harder for people to research. But as a general rule, if you look at their LinkedIn profile and search each individual up on google and they don't pop up with corresponding queries outside of the ICO itself, it's probably a scam.

Furthermore, the idea of integrating AI into payments simply doesn't make sense to me, and scams often use this strategy of integrating "buzzwords" together into a product that has no real value.

Seems like ICOEthics already has warned everyone, and AIPay's profile has been active and even posting on the ANN thread without responding to the accusations, meaning that they're probably just trying to get as much as possible out of their scam and hope that people remain ignorant to this accusation.