Well, that could be also simple, but we face a problem.
I guess that Ver has invested quite some funds (and influence) to advertise his coin and convince certain businesses to accept his coin (and maybe even offer better terms for his coin than proper Bitcoin).
So those noobs have fallen for the advertising (it doesn't matter here how false it was). That's what they understand. Advertising. (simple)
But.. (problem) : Monero doesn't do much advertising (if it does at all). So it may not be easy to reach them.