Maybe with 1.44 ETH in his wallet just to lure the victims into making deposits and go crazy over this tarawan, oh how sad.
Maybe you are right. Its common that scammers make some transactions by their own to make visitors believe that they are really following their commitment. Although they have showed many fake transactions on their frontend and hope anyone will justify that before making new one. Greedy and ignorant as well, no one in their right frame of mind will simply gave that kind of huge amount, not Vitalik himself. So if someone falls for it, as much as I hate to say it, but it's their own fault.
You and me can't do nothing but increasing awareness among investors about scammers activity. In some cases who are relatively new in crypto world they start to believe on this kinda projects and make the mistake. Scammers have enough knowledge that experienced crypto investors will not put their foot on their money stealing trap and all their scam plans are just only for them who have less knowledge about crypto investment. 
