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>>kaeruc+(OP)
I'm surprised that Github stars are valuable enough to buy. Personally I never look at the star count because even if they were legit, they don't really tell me anything more useful than I get from looking at other things in the repo.

I tend to check the age difference between the earliest and latest commits because that lets me be sure it's not a project that someone spent a couple weeks coding up, dropped on github, and then forgot about. I'll also check the issues on there. I'm looking for more closed issues than open ones, but I'll also quickly scan over them to get a rough idea of how many are truly meaningful issues. I also get signals from the readme and docs. It's not a hard pass if there's issues with those, but it's certainly helpful to my opinion if they exist and are both clear and detailed.

>>ziml77+Kz
You are likely not important enough to scam. The first people I can imagine this being shown to are VCs in pitch decks who are only going to see this on a powerpoint and not actually on github. Very unlikely the VC will check github itself to verify the number, and if they do, even less likely they'll verify that the stars are real.

You're the kind that checks everything. Even if you had something valuable, a scammer wouldn't waste their time with you then there are easier fish to bait.