Telegram is a very risky place

[pishite]

Everyday, we face some threads here in bitcointalk with complain that people are targeting others to scam.
I found some people are doing that in different ways. Yesterday, I have visited a IEO group and asked for attention from admin. Couple of minutes later, someone knocked me and started to ask if I want to invest? He claimed he is an admin of that IEO group. I checked his profile and the admin from the group. For a moment I was fool. The scammer who knocked me was using the username of the original admin, in his (scammer) bio profile.
But, I further looked and got the different.
Don't send any fund if anyone ask you, no real project's admin will PM you.

Messengers were created for communication and the most that you can do is complain about spam. For any investment, it’s worth several times to think over and double-check the data of the development team, as a rule, all investments are made on exchanges or on their personal website. And thanks for the warning, I think newcomers will definitely draw their conclusions, but the scammers do not sit idle and always come up with new ways to cheat.

[Reatim]

You can have the same attitude here.

Always ask questions and answer them on public. Avoid pm.

Many scammers will try to fool you on pm. When you are posting in public many people will give their opinions and maybe even tag a scammer before you notice anything unusual.

Absolutely correct,In Private message usually the way of scammers or even hackers to victimize us.i have lots of PM’s in telegram From random person that sometimes I don’t know where did they get my telegram since I only joined two or three groups but spammers comes from nowhere

So I think the best option is every time you will receive a PM from random account that nothing to do with you,just report Spam and you’ll be safe

[nakamura12]

It is important that you know how to keep yourself safe from any kinds of scam attack from telegrams like avoiding PMs, blocking telegram users that you didn't know and changing settings the same settings that you can see in the image I will provide below. Check it out.

"Data and Storage" should be like this. All are off to avoid automatic downloading of any files.

Privacy and Security should be changed to this settings. Phone Number and groups should be changed to My Contacts only so that you won't get added to any group without your consent or permission to add you in a group and no one will be able to see your phone number.

"PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN DOING NOTHING"

[Bekuciwu9]

Telegram is a messaging app just like facebook messenger and whatsapp. Scammers not only use telegram to do their bad motives. It's just that in telegram there are no profiles needed to create like facebook. All you need is a username and a phone number to be registered on that app. Best thing to do if you want to avoid being scammed on any platform is to avoid investing to someone you don't know. And don't provide any private info if someone ask you.

Yep, part of why Telegram is so popular among scammers is that is very easy to make an acc that is not easy to trace back to them, and doesn't require some special knowledge.