Hello ICOEthics,
We've already replied on our announcement thread but we feel it's appropriate to write a post in here as well.
You are correct on all of your findings but
we never tried to hide that we took inspiration from LISK. As a matter of fact
We mention LISK as the source of the core technology at least once in our
whitepaper.
The codebase comes from RISE that comes from LSK which originated from crypti. Our mistake was to just take the LISK whitepaper as a template but we really never thought to fool anyone as most people knowing JS/TS DPoS coins knows that they either are RISE or LISK. We probably failed and should've mentioned LISK more clearly.. sorry about that.
About Team pictures. Again: you're right but we never pretended to use fake pictures (shutterstock or whatever) attempting to scam our users. We want to be anonymous (Crypto Anarchist Manifesto believers/followers here) and we will probably never expose our real names here. Also we are not going to ask anyone money and if the project fails in terms of adoption/interest we will abandon the ship.
If you still think we're a scam team I'm sorry.
Bests...
