For verification, always ask the telegram users to pm you here in forum to validate that the tg user is the same as the forum user. I always do that to anyone asking in tg if money matters.
Exactly, this. Always double verify. If someone asks you for help / money in Telegram, you can almost always be certain it's a scam attempt.
There's mainly two kinds of scammers:
- those who buy lists with Telegram handles on the internet / russian message boards: they contact you, propose random bullshit and you can recognize them because they share no common groups with you (just click the profile)
- those who lurk in chatrooms, waiting for someone to ask for help OR they proactively contact you, "offering" you to get scammed.
Always be careful!