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I don't think it's a dumb question.
Unfortunately I'm not sure there's any guaranteed method to establish trustworthiness. It's especially difficult because if there was, it would probably be easy for the scams to utilise and thus it would stop being a good method.
Anyways, I would say try to look at the people behind the software - do they have personal websites or do they work on other stuff that also seems reliable? What about the users, do they seem legitimate? Are the issues actual issues, not fake ones? Does the code seem maintained on a regular basis with non-trivial commits? Can you find online third party mentions that seem trustworthy?
That's just what I could think of. But essentially, there is no silver bullet and you'll just need to make a thorough assessment and decide if you trust it enough.