That has got to be the worst of most of the stories I've heard of. So gravitate just slapped a sticker on the coin and sold it loaded. 
I met Gravitate along with Zepher, LC and a few others at Coinfest '18 UK.... He didn't look thrilled to meet us, in fact he asked me while shaking his hand if I was going to smash my glass of beer over his head.
After assuring him I would not, Zepher then told him, "Nah, I know you're not a scammer, you're just fucking incompetent as fuck"... To which he agreed. (I should also note that while faking some major injury with crutches, almost wearing a disguise, and also keeping his last name off the EthBits (Scam) Presentation he coordinated, I was quite surprised he dared to show his face anywhere - I guess scams don't catch up to people in the EU like the USA.
Does it count as a scam if he had no malicious intent to steal/loss funds?