This accusation is false.
It is not a scam and this accusation is irrelevant, because it is neither an ICO nor a brand new coin. It is just a fork!
Did you see the site:
https://ethereumprogpow.comWhat did you think of the website? Do you think this site is a professional site that shows some kind of respect? why the hell did someone bother to create such a site? and why the hell does the person want to create another shitcoin?
People have not to be super-rich to try forking of a chain like Ethereum. Ethereum community is full of shits, They got a "supreme leader", a "Foundation", payed developers and a roadmap! To cryptocurrency movement they are like aliens, saying weird things about "weak subjectivity", "finality", they have even implanted a "difficulty bomb" in the protocol and are planning for an ice age, to force PoW out and play their Proof of Shit thing!
It is sad. A PoW coin, supported by thousands of gpu miners with tens of thousands rigs all over the globe, is treated like an experimental joke by its own developers. No sir, you don't need to establish another foundation to fork off from such idiots.
I think this guy and his team are just sick of the irresponsible devs and their chief Vitalik who considers ASIC resistance a "distraction" from his favorite game in his dad's backyard: Ethereum. They need to do better, to be prepared more and there is no rush, ... I agree, but
it is not a scam, it is a scream!