Don't you think that all this situation is weird, because all "victims" is russians with noob accounts?
May be your point is right, and it's possible to may not be also. Not every people create an account in bitcointalk, a crypto trader doesn't necessarily refer to a bitcointalk user. They only think of creating an account only to report the scam event. So, basically, you can't decide the truthfulness of the event by judging through the user rank only.