I researched a bit more. The CEO has a website credits.ru since 2011 and had 11 odd devs earlier. They would have tried to acquire credits.com earlier. Clearly they are not fly by night. Only question is whether they achieved 1mn TPS
Thanks for that helpful info.
I agree that they are definitely not fly by night characters. People who haven't started their own business are clueless to how important hype is, in the initial stages. You're often flying by the seat of your pants, until you make it. You basically fake it until you make it, sometimes, and of course you have competition that tries to take you down, etc.
The rumors that I'm hearing from people I trust to tell me the truth, and who have far more time to research the project, than I do, are saying that the prototype is real, and not fake, and they are buying more Credits.