Im coming to this discussion I still have my ruby coin wallet - set up on an external hard drive. So, if need be, I can verify any signed messages from rubycoin wallet addresses.
(I'm away until Friday, so it won't happen until then)
If rby is indeed the "original" owner, then they wouldn't have any difficulties setting up a node.
Interesting. I was posting about this scam years ago and here you are saying you have a Rubycoin wallet. Even if the current operator manages to sign a known address from the original creator of the rby account what would it prove? It is highly unlikely he will manage to do it regardless.
I'm leaning towards they won't be able to sign a message much less create a node because they don't have the program because they aren't one of the Devs.
Call it a hunch...