Yup, like that somehow makes it better. "Oh, we weren't actively trying to deceive anyone, we are just so incompetent we didn't know any better!"

The underlying issue is the same though. If you were scummy enough to plagiarize your whitepaper/website/ANN thread, or scummy enough to steal people's identity, or scummy enough to please ignorance about the whole thing (whether true or not), then who knows what else you are scummy enough to do. Exit scam? You bet.