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Hi guys, You can there is a website ton.fund which is rugging ICO for telegram GRAM token (as claimed by the website) User don't have to create an account it can be done through telegram username so it appears like real ICO.
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there is not much info on the internet about it. There are articles stating that its a scam also no authentic info from telegram. Please let me know your opinion on this.

As far as I know, ICO for Telegram has not started yet. So it is very likely to be a scam.

https://www.coindesk.com/telegrams-1-2-billion-ico-ambitious-token-sale-yet/
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/telegram-open-network/
I've took those links from this thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2894541.0). The ICO is real and legit but as it usually happens scamers sometimes are trying to lay their hands on it. Also yesterday I've seen news that Roman Abramovich (one of the top russian billioneares) invested around 300$ mln into telegram ICO (https://en.crimerussia.com/oligarchs/roman-abramovich-invests-300mln-in-pavel-durov-s-telegram/). TON seems to be hyped AF but I still think that it is a bit overpriced (at least at the begining). Right now they are running a private sale for different big whales and the main part will start in march. If someone tried to sell you their tokens now then it is definetely a scam.

No,telegram ICO wont happen because telegram isnt developing its network as what these scam sites are claiming,because if telegram would create their own cryprocurrency it would be announce officially which wont happen because these informations are just speculations, and rumours from dumb people.Do not be fooled follow telegram's social media accounts so will be updated.

Fake and fake.
Stay away from it!

Telegram founder has tweeted that it is a complete scam,check hes tweets.
Nevertheless i can bet that they will manage to scam a ton of people. Sad.

honestly if peopel don't do their research, they kinda deserve to be scammed. that's just dumb of them.

There were a lot of rumors about the telegram tokens, but first of all, there is no real information from the creator of the telegram, Pavel Durov, so most likely these are scammers, and it is not worth contacting them.

Telegram has the reach, popularity, strength, tech and following, and if the same usernames are used, how can it be a scam, and why would telegram not deal with any such fake attempt.

As I have checked the various telegram groups I found this news few weeks before itself. But as of now there is no any official crypto currency investment from the telegram team. Even I know they starts that GRAM ICO project.

There is no any announcement thread from the telegram on the forum as well. So I think that they are not into the project as of now may they planned alone buddy.

Is it true that telegram will enter crypto and make ICO for tokens that they develop, if it is true we have to follow ICO because it will be very potential to see Telegram platform growing very fast, I also telegram. users and there is currently no info on ICO.

it's scammers who just strip money out of people. do not trust this project. From the company telegrams there were no official announcements about the issue of a coin or access to the ICO. These cheaters have already deceived many people and need to fight with them

I read about it already, I am pretty sure this is a scum and it has nothing to do with Telegram. I suggest to stay away!!

A real ICO on telegram would rise a lot of publicity and lots of talks on this forum. Do you see any of that? Then drawn your own conclusions.

based on what I have heard it should be real. Also it would make sense given the telegram bakground and its popularity amongst the crypto community members. I think they're going to do it :)

Look very similar to a scam project and i don't think you should join it at all.
Lacks of information is the main key for a scam project, every scams want to stay behind the anonymous stuffs.
Don't join the anonymous project will reduce much percentages of scamming...

At this moment there are conversation with private investors, and they can buy minimum 20mln$. I think that any websites about ICO Telegram can now is scam. Be careful.

As I know Telegram developers have enough offers from investors... and while we talk about it's ICO guys have got 0,3 bln USD from Roman Abramovich

Telegram is doing an ICO in real life.

But there are also many scammers who are trying to say they are Telegram and spreading fakes. Stay away from anything that is not official because they will scam you.

Its just a rumour from the past which was created by these speculations but morelikely telegram wont do any ICO,because if they will surely they will announce it to the public which hasnt happened so this rumour will remain as rumour until the official statement of TELEGRAM has released which is undoubtly going to happen.

Can you support your claim if you have any proofs that telegram has doing an ICO?  ;D

Telegram has the reach, popularity, strength, tech and following, and if the same usernames are used, how can it be a scam, and why would telegram not deal with any such fake attempt.

Cant wait :)

Right.. there are many groups who invite people in shady "Telegram investors secret pools' :)
Even Telegram owner Durov ask to be careful cause all of that groups are stupid scam. Some of that 'secret pool' stole more than 5 mln USD

I know the news coming from telegram side but the ICO in this topic is not that so it seems like a fake and be careful

Morelikely yes it is just a fake news sreading in the whole community,telegram can really do ICO if they wanted and surely they will announce it in public which didnt happen because this news was created by these speculations and it wont really going to happen i guess because telegram could have announced it already.

It's real they have Telegram ICO and it was announced before that they will build a token, don't spread news or else people will judge you. Try Search more and everything's is going into place. See you on telegram group.

Well, I'm looking forward to official information about ICO. I believe that this will be the best project for the whole existence of crypto currency

I've been seeing this in most of facebook and telegram private groups lol. You can always check from the real telegram team if they are going to have an ICO. If no announcement or statement from them, then what has been circulating around is fake.

There is information in the media that Durov collected 800 million dollars for his project. At the same time, the circle of investors is very limited and the average check is very high

In my opinion, now it is better not to think about Durov's ICO. Too much Scam and phishing is unfolding around. We can easily get caught on the hook. Information about the ICO has already been officially confirmed, while there is a closed sale. Let's wait for the open trades I will definitely buy this coin.

For me Telegram ICO looks like one of the most trustful projects of last period of time. It has nice team of founders and developers and its token Gram will rise with the time I suppose.

i think this is real ICO, you can check it here https://www.coindesk.com/telegrams-1-2-billion-ico-ambitious-token-sale-yet/. this is most booming ICO in this year!

I read about the telegram ICO the other day. The article mentions that this ICO raised most money of any ICO ever. But the official telegram site shows no info that there even is an ICO...

fake!

I'm not sure what it is worth to invest in this project. You can write to the official channel of the telegraph and they will clarify all the questions. But I think it's a fake.

NO fake. durov raise twice Vkontakte .

I know that telegram tokens are sold on closed sales. It seems that some of the coins are rumored to be sold to ordinary people. But I did not meet official news. Perhaps remaining tokens will not even be sold. Since whales invested simply huge sums. And there were a lot of public people there. If there was a real sale - tokens would end in 2 minutes.

Telegram is doing an ICO in real life. Big investors investments in this project yet. Budget 200-800m$

TELEGRAM ICO has been announced before and they will launch their own token that will be called TON.
yet the ICO of this so-called TON has started and their website is really sketchy.
everyone knows that once this telegram launches their ICO it will be a huge hit and there will be difficulties to gain tokens.
though this one ICO now that is TON is really looks like a scam, just simply send eth to their wallet and you will get yours in return.

I agree with this mate, and in fact ico in the telegram is a huge help to make a community of the coin gather its followers online. The social media part can make good communications with regards to the conversations needed in every investors, and it serves as their quick guide if having concerns regarding the project. But be careful, because some scammers is more aggressive to pursue their devious intent of deceiving people despite of not being part of the devs, they're taking people to trap of their scamming tactics. So be safe and informative so that you'll not be getting into scam on telegram, and avoid communicating people in private conversations on telegram.

Desperate for an opportunity to jump aboard in the next big thing, cryptocurrency owners are losing money by investing blindly in fake Telegram ICO websites... ... If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. “The more hyped the project the more likely are scammers going to resort to phishing sites,”

If telegram is doing an ICO right now im sure the whole world will know it,but telegram has no announcement yet,an official statement regarding this matter would be appreciated by most of the people who are expecting that an ICO will soon be live,but i doubt there will be no ICO because this is just camre from the speculations.

We havent heard anything from Telegram so it means that this speculations will remain a rumour,in my opinion telegram could have announced it already if there is really a ongoing ICO because they cant hide these things to most of the people and press which gives this news invalid.This will be settled bu telegram itself im sure they will release some official statement.

I also thought it was a scam, but as far as I know, Pavlo Durov has already filed documents stating that they had collected $ 850 million, which is likely the real project.

Its just came from the people's speculations so im sure this is a fake news because if Telegram has been doing their ICO im sure we will be the one who will know it first,but if theres no official statement from the telegram itself it can be considered as fake or FUD news.When this thing would happen im sure it will be massive and all the people will join its ICO.

I think we won't be able to invest in Telegram ICO, It might be opened only for top tier or big investors. I might be wrong though.

Founded by Russian entrepreneurs Pavel and Nikolai Durov who cashed out of their social media company VKontakte to the tune of $300 million, Telegram is a secure messaging app that competes with the like of WhatsApp.

‘Compete,’ however, is misleading, because Telegram has no viable business model, as it makes no money – on purpose.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2018/02/17/telegram-ico-scam-among-cryptocurrency-scams/#77cf60b61cf0

This news is still unconfirmed yet but it seems there will be less chance that this news will be come  true ??Because if TON really exists it will be massive and telegram cannot hide it to the people.For now lets hope that this is really going to happen because speculations will still be considered as a rumour withoutproofs presented.

ICO  with only telegram is not a real ICO, Accept is Airdrop to inform more people/participant, while hosting they site and whitepaper, while forming a team on the project about to start. and also Passing information using telegram to create more group,  secondly ICO without a website, and whitepaper is not a real ICO, Because no adequate information pass from a real source or the manger/Dev on a telegram group. Finally every good project, that has a future aim, always has a road map, through they website.  

This is just a FUD and it will never gonna happen because if telegram is conducting their own ICO people will surely know about it,because they cant hide anything from us,TON is just a speculations from few people unless telegram will release a official statement regarding to this speculations but i doubt they wont because they dont have any plans about it.

I think telegram and ico is real, if you choose and make research for it, dont inter if you dont research first.

I think the telegram ICO is ridiculous. I would not invest.

Fake news morelikely because if Telegram has ongoing ICO people will find it out,but we heard nothing from telegram so it only means that this is just a speculations from the people,TON never exists and telegram wont make its own ICO,this will only come true if telegram will have official statement regarding this matter.

If you dont research i think it will be scam, but it depend to the people who make that. But ico is real make chooser is good to avoid scam.

If you can not find any sure information about this ico project the best option will be ignor this. Because it can be scam, so do not waste time for this.

I don't think telegram is conducting any ICO. I don't feel they need ICO for anything. Telegram is a fulfilled social media thats way more advanced than whatsapp.
And besides if telegram was to conduct an ICO they will inform everyone some weeks prior to the date of ICO.
So this rumored telegram ICO is simply but a scam. We should all beware and inform others too to be careful so that we won't loose our funds to scammers

If telegram is doing an ICO right now im sure the whole world will know it,but telegram has no announcement yet,an official statement regarding this matter would be appreciated by most of the people

Some Telegram are just fake but that is only few of them existing. But most of them are not. If an ICO is fake, then probably the telegram also is fake. Some scammers uses fake telegram and pretend to be a administrator or developers of a certain ICO, be careful with that specially when investing and in trading. Do not trade in telegram, use the exchanges.

I think it is real and I read they have even raised over 800 million+ for the ICO. But we shall keep our fingers crossed and wait for more info from them..

This ICO is very doubtful just because of this most of investors not taking serious and Company official announcement is also not available about this just because of this try to avoid or keep away from this until official statement came from company