This is very sad to say that some user bad use of coller membership and launching scam coin.
One should check these coins,their project, their total supply and their partnership before investing in it.
Everyone who bases trust on some copper membership deserves to be scammed.
What are these sob story threads?
You don't trust random people because they have some paid membership like the one Bitcoin Foundation used to give out.
Trust system is probably the only indicator you can rely on but never let it be the only thing you check out before you do business with someone.