Telegram users beware!

[Stedsm]

Friends,
We all witnessed the horrific rally of bitcoin that made it do over 11 times in a period of less than a year, but few people on the telegram are spreading hoax as well as doing "false" cross promotions by creating misconceptions among users that bitcoin went to 8000 and will go down more. They are doing all this through their channels and this is one worst thing that could destroy the image of bitcoins in new investors' views as they don't know much about it and will probably not check out the real picture. I don't know why such channels are not banned on Telegram but I will try my best to report each and every group that does their cross promotion with such bullshit content.

You really overestimate the impact of those channels.
Probably you're also a little too much involved at emotional level.

The world is not going to be influenced by some bots or stupid kids and their spam.
Most of the telegram channels have over inflated user numbers, I've seen a lot of them in which bots and fake accounts make more than 99% of the users there. The rest is the admin and his persona ))
5k telegram members can be bought with 50$ which they make by begging ICOs for free token in exchange of spam.

Besides, do you think there are people so stupid they check one channel and decide to sell?
I miss the btc-e trollbox in this case.

I know that people can be bought but what about some trollboxes (at telegram itself) where these people do their promotions with the same content to gain some members really subscribe to their channels seeing the number of members they have? It's not like everyone knows about the bot thing and I am  glad you guys evaluated it here. But you really can't deny the fact the those who are not aware or least aware about bitcoins (like newbies whom I'm mainly focusing in this debate) may get dragged to some misleadings and be made to do what they are not expecting to. As well, it's not some kind of an "emotional attachment" of mine with those channels but it's my duty to come up and disclose such wrongdoings going on there in order to prevent users from getting fake information.

[MiiDoViic]

Friends,
We all witnessed the horrific rally of bitcoin that made it do over 11 times in a period of less than a year, but few people on the telegram are spreading hoax as well as doing "false" cross promotions by creating misconceptions among users that bitcoin went to 8000 and will go down more. They are doing all this through their channels and this is one worst thing that could destroy the image of bitcoins in new investors' views as they don't know much about it and will probably not check out the real picture. I don't know why such channels are not banned on Telegram but I will try my best to report each and every group that does their cross promotion with such bullshit content.

Those people can't effect the image of bitcoin in anyway . Everybody knows already that bitcoin is unstoppable and even if the price goes down it will recover shortly. Real bitcoin investors will do much more than just listening to what bs telegram channels are saying.

[pawanjain]

Almost any person with a good basic knowledge in crypto can open up a telegram group and make tons of members join it from the social media.
Yes it is absolutely wrong to use social media for such bad things as spreading wrong information but the world id full of scammers and it depends on us whether to believe them or not. Bitcoin price can easily be seen on the internet and one doesn't have to believe on others as crypto is volatile and any predictions made on the speculation of coins is purely an assumption.

[sicparvismagna]

I mean even in telegram scammers are everywhere and could attack anywhere at anytime. Your right a countermeasure should be set against these people because if continously attact victims many more of our fellow bitcoin users will be dismayed in the bitcoin community.

[eaLiTy]

@Stedsm
You will be hearing more of these FUD news from all these fake channels when the price goes higher and if you are going to listen to those,no comments what so ever,all of them are just key board warriors just vomiting things without even having any clue what they are telling and if you are going to listen to those,no one could help you,i am not sure how reporting those channels will help in removing those channels,rather than quitting them yourself .

[vjseven]

I do not see a problem with that. The author - get yourself a channel on a telegram and write that bitcoin tomorrow will cost $ 15,000. To follow or not follow panic purchases or sales is the decision of each particular trader.

yes you are absolutely right pal

[nankers]

Yes,personally to newbie when join in airdrop.cause now so many project about airdrop and so many account and wallet stolen after they follow airdrop.actually airdrop project must join with telegram.its ok if the project not scam.but maybe different if project scam and admin for airdrop project is scam too.and once,to many bot on telegram now ^^

[therhslv]

How these people can influence price of bitcoin ? I got some messages about bitcoin going to dump really hard and so on . I was like oh well if its true then alright , if not then what ? You cant dump btc price with telegram spams . Nobody can predict price of bitcoin , its 50/50 , chance Up or Down

[javainn]

I think not only on the telegram is a lot of content that is very ugly and only harmful. it is possible to do so only to gain profit and to be very detrimental. with the information here many participants should be more careful when join in telegram.

[bribed]

Yes,personally to newbie when join in airdrop.cause now so many project about airdrop and so many account and wallet stolen after they follow airdrop.actually airdrop project must join with telegram.its ok if the project not scam.but maybe different if project scam and admin for airdrop project is scam too.and once,to many bot on telegram now ^^

I know what you mean, I have seen such groups and stayed away from this airdrop business after I saw all the shitposts, thats not for me. I suggest, no matter what you do: never click a link in telegram. This is only phishing and is heavily promoted by scammers through telegram. Its just disgusting and I would love to see all those scammers computers and phones infected with heavy viruses that just eliminate their hardware. That would be awesome.

[Malamok101]

Someone else has done something like that, but I think we anonymous here in the bitcointalk forum. We should be careful because such people are scammer, but thank you very much for being able to avoid others too, but I will arrange and read your telegram channel carefully so that it can be changed and you have nothing to worry about.

[ir.yance]

Friends,
We all witnessed the horrific rally of bitcoin that made it do over 11 times in a period of less than a year, but few people on the telegram are spreading hoax as well as doing "false" cross promotions by creating misconceptions among users that bitcoin went to 8000 and will go down more. They are doing all this through their channels and this is one worst thing that could destroy the image of bitcoins in new investors' views as they don't know much about it and will probably not check out the real picture. I don't know why such channels are not banned on Telegram but I will try my best to report each and every group that does their cross promotion with such bullshit content.

we should not worry too much. There are many other news sources about bitcoin and crypto other than telegram instead of telegram only but still many others. And fuds also exist now

[francis2]

Friends,
We all witnessed the horrific rally of bitcoin that made it do over 11 times in a period of less than a year, but few people on the telegram are spreading hoax as well as doing "false" cross promotions by creating misconceptions among users that bitcoin went to 8000 and will go down more. They are doing all this through their channels and this is one worst thing that could destroy the image of bitcoins in new investors' views as they don't know much about it and will probably not check out the real picture. I don't know why such channels are not banned on Telegram but I will try my best to report each and every group that does their cross promotion with such bullshit content.

The only problem I have with this is what kind of investor is getting his information from telegram, it is like trying to get legal advice from Facebook it seems crazy to me.

[icoDealDeckcom]

Friends,
We all witnessed the horrific rally of bitcoin that made it do over 11 times in a period of less than a year, but few people on the telegram are spreading hoax as well as doing "false" cross promotions by creating misconceptions among users that bitcoin went to 8000 and will go down more. They are doing all this through their channels and this is one worst thing that could destroy the image of bitcoins in new investors' views as they don't know much about it and will probably not check out the real picture. I don't know why such channels are not banned on Telegram but I will try my best to report each and every group that does their cross promotion with such bullshit content.

Hard to combat the fake news. I do agree when you find them, ban them.

[Lyancy001]

Friends,
We all witnessed the horrific rally of bitcoin that made it do over 11 times in a period of less than a year, but few people on the telegram are spreading hoax as well as doing "false" cross promotions by creating misconceptions among users that bitcoin went to 8000 and will go down more. They are doing all this through their channels and this is one worst thing that could destroy the image of bitcoins in new investors' views as they don't know much about it and will probably not check out the real picture. I don't know why such channels are not banned on Telegram but I will try my best to report each and every group that does their cross promotion with such bullshit content.

Well, they are doing that just to buy at a low price and can sell it to a higher one. Nothing is new here. We just have to deal with it and let the beginners be informed about it.

[Kotone]

Friends,
We all witnessed the horrific rally of bitcoin that made it do over 11 times in a period of less than a year, but few people on the telegram are spreading hoax as well as doing "false" cross promotions by creating misconceptions among users that bitcoin went to 8000 and will go down more. They are doing all this through their channels and this is one worst thing that could destroy the image of bitcoins in new investors' views as they don't know much about it and will probably not check out the real picture. I don't know why such channels are not banned on Telegram but I will try my best to report each and every group that does their cross promotion with such bullshit content.

I think that a lot would benefit from this if we can totally pinpoint and see what needs to be done on each and everything that wr could avoid here in this post. It is important to note however that these channels might not be totally atteibuted to these channels

[francis2]

@Stedsm
You will be hearing more of these FUD news from all these fake channels when the price goes higher and if you are going to listen to those,no comments what so ever,all of them are just key board warriors just vomiting things without even having any clue what they are telling and if you are going to listen to those,no one could help you,i am not sure how reporting those channels will help in removing those channels,rather than quitting them yourself .

This is why I do not like to use social media to find out the news about what it is happening because there are only bulls and FUD there is not middle ground of people doing some analysis trying to discover what it is happening.

[fabioganga]

Thank you for the warning.

The more I read these sort of things the more I realize that there are some very strong powers that do not want to see Bitcoin as successful as it is now and who see themselves losing such power.

As a consequence, they do everything they can to discredit Bitcoin and throw mud at it.

[denzkilim]

Friends,
We all witnessed the horrific rally of bitcoin that made it do over 11 times in a period of less than a year, but few people on the telegram are spreading hoax as well as doing "false" cross promotions by creating misconceptions among users that bitcoin went to 8000 and will go down more. They are doing all this through their channels and this is one worst thing that could destroy the image of bitcoins in new investors' views as they don't know much about it and will probably not check out the real picture. I don't know why such channels are not banned on Telegram but I will try my best to report each and every group that does their cross promotion with such bullshit content.

I think that a lot would benefit from this if we can totally pinpoint and see what needs to be done on each and everything that wr could avoid here in this post. It is important to note however that these channels might not be totally atteibuted to these channels

Those people are paid by whales or whales itself, they are spreading FUD to make the price of bitcoin to go down so that they can buy more and profit more later on. In my analysis Bitcoin won't go down below $10,000 dollars and so on but who knows expect the unexpected. 

[AK47-]

Friends,
We all witnessed the horrific rally of bitcoin that made it do over 11 times in a period of less than a year, but few people on the telegram are spreading hoax as well as doing "false" cross promotions by creating misconceptions among users that bitcoin went to 8000 and will go down more. They are doing all this through their channels and this is one worst thing that could destroy the image of bitcoins in new investors' views as they don't know much about it and will probably not check out the real picture. I don't know why such channels are not banned on Telegram but I will try my best to report each and every group that does their cross promotion with such bullshit content.

Social media always had divided views when it comes to cryptocurrencies. On same Telegram channels you will find many such groups who are bullish on bitcoin and saying bitcoin will cross $25k this year. This is nothing new, everywhere you'll find FUDster involved in degrading bitcoin. Look at the media, look at BCH drama, look at miners, who isn't involved in bashing Bitcoin.

There are enough of haters!