Vod is the best candidate to prove this I have seen him giving a lot of opinions on many start ups and if he has a hint he'll tell everybody and most of the time he is right, I trust his opinion and hope you can prove that or you will be busted.
The word "successful" is too generic to conclude a truth/lie. The OP did send me a link and he did validate he controlled the site site. I did verify corporate registration on the site.
However, the corporation is dissolving in 6 days because verification documents were never submitted. And Alexa ranks the website in my signature a couple
million spots higher than his.
To sum up: The OP is probably sincere about his intentions but I cannot see where $50K would already have been spent, so I would recommend against investing another $80K.