Why is Telegram associated with fraudsters

[TopT3ns]

Scammers are everywhere, I can't see any reason to blame the Telegram. The social media platforms are good places to target the crypto victims and take their money with shady choices. Just don't play the novice trader scenario when they send a personal message first.

well this is a problem because from the beginning a lot of scammers who roam and can do an invite to their group by using a script or other so that you will enter without your knowledge and they start giving you offers to outwit you.

[CaVO32]

Scammers are everywhere, I can't see any reason to blame the Telegram. The social media platforms are good places to target the crypto victims and take their money with shady choices. Just don't play the novice trader scenario when they send a personal message first.

well this is a problem because from the beginning a lot of scammers who roam and can do an invite to their group by using a script or other so that you will enter without your knowledge and they start giving you offers to outwit you.

and most of the time, their victims are newbies, who are thinking that they will really get money out of it. but there is a feature in telegram that you can report scammers and tag them, so if you encounter any of them, just make sure to tag them so no one will be a victim of their illegal activities. but one thing that I encountered is, they will pose as a technical support of the exchange, they are closely following every crypto exchange and if they see someone asking for help about their account, they will pm you that they can resolve their issues. i almost got screwed but I sent a message to the official accounts and they said they are not in any way sending pm first to their clients. so everybody should do their due diligence before trusting anyone esp those that will pm you out of nowhere. most official reps will not send you a pm first. and they are clear about it.

[semobo]

Scammers in Telegram, well, there are scammers without Telegram, just why position a beautiful creation like Telegram with scammers, Telegram is a multi-functional tool with the ability to create a bot and a lot of other functionality, but as the question comes to do something useful through Telegram, many say telegram and there are scammers.

You can save yourself from the fraudsters and spams by simply enabling security features on telegram like changing who can message you, who can add you to other groups on privacy and security settings.

[AicecreaME]

Predators always hunts prey, and they always want to go where they could feed a lot, and telegram is the best place to scam people, because there are too many people who are using telegram for bounties and cryptocurrency, especially airdrops that ask fees first before they send you the token, pretty skeptical isn't it? I'm not blaming the victims but sometimes, we feed them, I mean we already know its fishy and too good to be true but still be bite their baits, therefore they earned the courage to scam more people, and it can't be stop.

[ije07]

in general, not only on telegrams but there are still many other channels that can fool you including other social media channels. related to telegram I think it depends on the user only, if the user uses it wisely then there will be no fraud and that is why many users misuse the telegram bot for fraud because it is easily accessed.

[Eplus_Team]

I like Telegram because it is so versatile for the crypto communitys. It is true that it has its flaws in relation to bots and scammers who are spaming. But it is pretty easy to identify them, we must be more cunning than they are to keep us safe.

[Shallow]

We humans use different platforms or things for different purposes, while some will be for good others for fraud etc. Just like Facebook, Twitter, some people can use it for good things while some can use it to scam people, so scamming isn't limited to or associated with a particular platform. Now in the case of Telegram, telegram happens to be a good multi-functional and multi-purpose platform thus the reason why many projects are leveraging it for various services, because of this and the huge number of users, scammers see it as an opportunity to scam . So basically it is not a fault from Telegram rather it is just in human nature, therefore to be safe,.be mindful of personal messages from unrecognised people.

[FanEagle]

Scammers in Telegram, well, there are scammers without Telegram, just why position a beautiful creation like Telegram with scammers, Telegram is a multi-functional tool with the ability to create a bot and a lot of other functionality, but as the question comes to do something useful through Telegram, many say telegram and there are scammers.

This is because telegram let scammers to misuse it with less efforts as there are many bugs are still to be fixed. One of those big bugs must be, letting scammers to add any telegram user into their group. This way scammers are easily adding 1000s of telegram users wherever they want to. This must be a privacy breach because people are getting added to any group without their permission. I'm not sure why telegram is still not blocking that feature.

As of now it is right to assume that telegram is associated with fraudsters because they are doing business in favor of scammers to exploit them. They also must limit the functionality of bots which are relevant to breaching individual's privacy.

[Impacto]

For anyone the is conversant with telegram , he/she will know how to avoid them. I have seen them alot of times and I just ignore them. They will come to your pm with nice offers that can happen within a day like 500% in 24hrs. Just beware.

[tvplus006]

For anyone the is conversant with telegram , he/she will know how to avoid them. I have seen them alot of times and I just ignore them. They will come to your pm with nice offers that can happen within a day like 500% in 24hrs. Just beware.

When you see such a scam in a telegram, you should definitely make a report that it is a scam. And if others also make a report, then this channel will be marked as "scam". In this case, all participants will see this, and they will know to be careful.

[Botnake]

For anyone the is conversant with telegram , he/she will know how to avoid them. I have seen them alot of times and I just ignore them. They will come to your pm with nice offers that can happen within a day like 500% in 24hrs. Just beware.

When you see such a scam in a telegram, you should definitely make a report that it is a scam. And if others also make a report, then this channel will be marked as "scam". In this case, all participants will see this, and they will know to be careful.

I think that is a good idea, that is there is a report feature in this app because as a responsible user, we should report.
Some people just leave the channel but you are right, it's also good to care for the other users so they will not be scam, hopefully more people are willing to do that.

[mdzahed134]

Fraudsters dose not only in telegram, we see their activities all of social platform. Telegram is the biggest community for cryptocurrency. Fraudsters can easily reached any people it’s their advantages here, but it’s very difficult to trace real account, it’s looks anonymous platform, so that scammers choosing this one, here anyone does not reveal their real information. I think their(telegram) is no fault here.                      

[bayudndy]

Scammers in Telegram, well, there are scammers without Telegram, just why position a beautiful creation like Telegram with scammers, Telegram is a multi-functional tool with the ability to create a bot and a lot of other functionality, but as the question comes to do something useful through Telegram, many say telegram and there are scammers.

You can save yourself from the fraudsters and spams by simply enabling security features on telegram like changing who can message you, who can add you to other groups on privacy and security settings.

Yea, this is the best way for us to not be bothered by scammer. I have been using this method since last year and my telegram is completely clean, no one can PM me with ridiculous content and no one added me to fake groups in this market.

[Saisher]

Scammers in Telegram, well, there are scammers without Telegram, just why position a beautiful creation like Telegram with scammers, Telegram is a multi-functional tool with the ability to create a bot and a lot of other functionality, but as the question comes to do something useful through Telegram, many say telegram and there are scammers.

Because people can imitate administrator of projects and they can deceive newbies and those who do not search diligently, compare to forum where people can give opinions, on telegram it's a one on one basis between scammers and newbies, that is why people should ignore people who message them in telegram unless they can present credibility.

[AicecreaME]

I like Telegram because it is so versatile for the crypto communitys. It is true that it has its flaws in relation to bots and scammers who are spaming. But it is pretty easy to identify them, we must be more cunning than they are to keep us safe.

That's what they are lacking, in observance when it comes to stuff like that, the thing is, people are easily get swayed when it comes to easy money, they always neglect the fact that they need to investigate first before handing over their money (in any amount) to avoid getting scammed by someone in telegram, or wherever it is. If we always do that, we're not going to be scam anymore and scammers will slowly decrease in their numbers because they can't fool anyone anymore so easy, simple as that.

[someone703]

I like Telegram because it is so versatile for the crypto communitys. It is true that it has its flaws in relation to bots and scammers who are spaming. But it is pretty easy to identify them, we must be more cunning than they are to keep us safe.

How can telegram remove scammer from their application? Every user can become a scammer, and telegram cannot control and read the minds of the users. If you know someone who is scam then just report it and they will do their job well, I've seen them tag lots of scammer users and help new investors stay away from them.

[CETAN.IO]

Scammers in Telegram, well, there are scammers without Telegram, just why position a beautiful creation like Telegram with scammers, Telegram is a multi-functional tool with the ability to create a bot and a lot of other functionality, but as the question comes to do something useful through Telegram, many say telegram and there are scammers.

You can save yourself from the fraudsters and spams by simply enabling security features on telegram like changing who can message you, who can add you to other groups on privacy and security settings.

Yea, this is the best way for us to not be bothered by scammer. I have been using this method since last year and my telegram is completely clean, no one can PM me with ridiculous content and no one added me to fake groups in this market.

There is also a point that the scammers are not spam, but that you use a company with a certain product, and in fact it is paved, and why so, because telegram bot is easy to do to anyone

[fortunecrypto]

People easily believe in what people in telegram are being offered, I think it's something to do with greed, some scammers are using gambling with a big funds and giveaways that you need to deposit to be able to claim, and once greed set in without doing proper analysis and asking people here, they end up getting scam it always pay to ask.

[JeotQ]

Greed is what makes people listen to strangers on telegram, fear those who PM you first, they have nothing to offer you but they are fully ready to take from you, when you listen to what they have to say is when they've get control of your mind

[TheGreatPython]

Lack of security really takes the cake there. I mean think about it, you can go to any exchanges telegram group, change your name to "official exchange support person" or whatever and then you can message people and try to scam them.

Surely at this day and age, you are not going to convince all that many people to either give you their details, or even give you money, or basically anything, people are smarter these days and out of 1000 people you try to talk to maybe just 1-2 of them would really fall for it, but it happens and that is why it is a problem.

Plus, you can literally get as many people as you can together in a group if you want, then advertise fake stuff and pin them at the top and hope that some of them would click it, which is why its quite easy to associate it with scammers.