what? define "shady"
If its an ICO then its shady. There is no way of knowing if they have given themselves free coins.
You can look at the code to see if they gave themselves anything. Just sayin'.
You wont see it in the code. Like I said there is no way of knowing.
https://decentralize.today/how-to-run-a-crypto-coin-scam-7f83f4ec543b#.3glbb0jor