I don't believe competing currencies or product ideas in general, which don't meet the protocol standards of Ripple Labs are inherently scams. Besides The Apollo development team is upgrading its underlying Blockchain. Unless your matching up ripple labs with the vanilla NXT code?

By the way. I'd like to continue the convo on my update since this last post if your down.

https://steemit.com/apollo/@evolvepi/apollo-currency-and-hermes-has-ceo-s-just-chillin-with-the-people-like-what-can-your-crypto-do-that