I don't think the plagiarism of their white paper was done by accident. What can we expect from the OP? What can he explain to us? This will be another lie with excuses that they hired the wrong person, and of course, he will fix everything right now and blah blah.
The question is different if they are in such a hurry to announce their project, do not they need to double-check everything from the beginning?
Good check, FatFork.
Let's not be naive to believe in fairy tales about what a scammer can come up with when he wakes up two years later to publish another scam.