I just opened an account there, but I want ascertain it veracity before I put ethereum there, so as to be on the safe side.

Chron1cle:
I just opened an account there, but I want ascertain it veracity before I put ethereum there, so as to be on the safe side.

From the looks of it, yes.

They claim "ETHER COIN is the world’s most popular ethereum wallet. We are on a mission to build a more open, accessible, and fair financial future, one piece of software at a time". That's false; MEW is.

They claim Emily Wilson of NYT said "ETHER COIN Wallet...could allow billions of people currently excluded from banking systems to directly send and receive money electronically". Also false. The original quote is "bitcoin...could allow billions of people currently excluded from banking systems to directly send and receive money electronically" from a WSJ article.

It's also missing from every coin related site I know of. CoinDesk has no article on it, same thing with CoinTelegraph, BitcoinNews etc. I also asked a bunch of people that have been in this way before me and their advice is as expected: "stay away from it, just use myetherwallet".