Everyone was pretty confident until the dev(s) took down their real names--embedded in their emails. With the recent scam trends, its totally understandable why such a move raised suspicion. So if the devs are confident of their themselves, and are willing to disperse the community's wariness, all they have to do is to explain why they took down their names.
The fact they took down their names though makes me believe they might be telling the truth. Wouldn't scammers just not put their name up to begin with or try to pass off those fake names as being legit?
I can't imagine the kind of emails a female dev would be getting right now in this vile forum frankly. I've heard women at crypto conventions get treated like pieces of meat.