edit: No. He is aware of this company.

1xbit has a really bad reputation right now. I think they should bear a great responsibility for that. They have come back to the forum, but do not resolve situations.
I don't believe in new management at all. If they had good intentions at all, they should at least start paying people.
Who is aware of such activity and who can't believe the management but promote that is promoting scam and the user is undoubtedly is a part of scam. And I want to say for this case not only a part of scam but s/he is directly scamming by promoting scam knowingly.