The whole time reading the thread, my personal stance was that OP was overshooting with the scam accusation, and that anyone defending the thread should maybe consider giving the project a chance. Like "people can change, regardless of their past" or something like that. I really wanted to give the project the benefit of doubt, because so far, I haven't heard anything specifically negative about it.

Looks like this is the wrong attitude in this forum, thanks for posting that private message publicly.