https://github.com/torcoindev/torcoin/issues/4 You can see he changed the title in that issue, indicating he was taking over the abandoned name.
The original project is at least nearly 3 years old: https://github.com/torcoindev/torcoin/issues/1 (Git timestamps can be forged, but not Github issues)
And for the pièce de résistance, there's a backdoor in the code: https://github.com/torcoindev/torcoin/issues/3