hello , it's nice that you share the messages , we got support for the whitepaper , we shared our opinion , they wrote the whitepaper , we paid for it ... we never had any fraudulent intention
You do realize that this is a common excuse used by almost all project that have been caught with a plagiarized white paper?
If you pay for a service and the "service provider" delivers it to you, don't you even take the liberty to check if the service rendered is good and not just sham?
Otherwise, how do you spend money on something you even don't know if it's good or bad?