Provided that I placed my last order in November and I received it, I think what people are saying is just that if this was an exit scam why would the vendor announce his departure and literally write "stop sending money to the wallet"?
It make sense that like has been said plenty already if this was an exit scam he would spam promos left, right and center, instead of saying ops are paused don't send money.
I think he genuinely thought he will be back but then things backfired out of proportion on his ops and the rest is history.
But then again this is a complete assumption from my part and I do feel sorry about anyone that is down some cash because of what happened.