If you're wondering, newb1 is a director of the Litecoin Association who decided to jump in on this. He got so much because tuck-fheman had a rather large upvote power, and they offered to donate whatever they got to the first reply to their comment (which was newb1).
You can see this isn't a scam by calculating the rshares values yourself (assuming they haven't changed).
Here's the spreadsheet with the results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wo_cjjkWelaD4zAXUv8HhN7SCDtF0ROWUGlBMdRjOl8/pubhtml