Why is Telegram associated with fraudsters

[adzino]

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.

I never used telegram, so I don't know much about them, but I guess it is easy to use. Easy to manage and keep in touch with everyone. So, there are probably thousands of users over there, for which all those "fraudsters" also tend to use this platform to gain maximum benefit (read maximized scammed profit).
Saying telegram is associated with fraudsters sounds really wrong. Its actually the fraudsters that prefer using telegram.

[InwardContour]

Telegram is populated with so many scammers ofcourse, especially those private chatting you to invest in scam crypto projects (mostly HYIP) or fake groups pretending to be real projects especially during token sale. A friend of mine fell into the trap of scammers early this year, he was persuaded to invest in private sale of a scam project. Let's be guided, if it's too good to be true, then it's actually scam.

[bitgolden]

It all started with people being a lot more involved in crypto as well, it wasn't like this all the time but eventually telegram became the stop point for the crypto people, there are SO MANY crypto groups in telegram that you can literally find thousands of people in every group and we are talking about 100+ groups with 1000+ people, so it is easier to find targets for the scammers.

All they have to do is open a telegram account, try to talk to hundreds of people, even if they get banned finally, they could just move to another phone and they can try again and again until they can finally find one person they can actually hack and take all their money. As long as you give scammers a way to scam people, they will not stop until you can actually stop them individually.

[Vitalicus]

Telegram is populated with so many scammers ofcourse, especially those private chatting you to invest in scam crypto projects (mostly HYIP) or fake groups pretending to be real projects especially during token sale. A friend of mine fell into the trap of scammers early this year, he was persuaded to invest in private sale of a scam project. Let's be guided, if it's too good to be true, then it's actually scam.

Every day I have more than hundreds of invitations to invest, and this really makes me feel nauseous because of spam appearing in telegram. I often ignore these messages because I know these are all scam projects and you will be disappointed when investing. In addition, there are many users who pretend to be the CMO of exchanging money to scam the project but the rate is very low and any project is smart enough to recognize.

[rdewilde]

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.

To be frank I was first uncomfortable with the title, I think the best thing is, why are there many scammers or fraudsters in telegram? Telegram is never associated with scammers just that scammers are always after places with huge opportunities such as telegram. In telegram are many scammers just like in other social media accounts and whether on telegram or not, there is huge reasons to be careful, mind the people you chat with and many more because there are clones of real people.

[Farma]

because of its ease in finding groups, and having various systems that are automated and easy, making many people use telegrams as a way to fool people. Some people even try to become admin by following their names, profile photos, and others. if not careful, then young people will be deluded.

[HunterUnchained]

Telegram makes it extremely easy for just about anyone with knowledge to tweak its several customizable features and use it strictly for selfish purposes often times for the bad reasons. There are several ways to impersonate, perpetrate identity theft, and assume just about any status to steal or defraud. Also, unlike other messaging and social media channels, Telegram provides the biggest platform for crypto projects to host their communities making the platform one of the most prone to unscrupulous elements. These are some of the reasons why there is so much fraud and scams associated with Telegram.

[CETAN.IO]

Telegram makes it extremely easy for just about anyone with knowledge to tweak its several customizable features and use it strictly for selfish purposes often times for the bad reasons. There are several ways to impersonate, perpetrate identity theft, and assume just about any status to steal or defraud. Also, unlike other messaging and social media channels, Telegram provides the biggest platform for crypto projects to host their communities making the platform one of the most prone to unscrupulous elements. These are some of the reasons why there is so much fraud and scams associated with Telegram.

why do you think the crypto community supported Telegram?

[kceekcee]

Telegram has nothing to do with the fraudsters, its the same way we say there are scammers or hackers on fb and Instagram.

People only use those platforms for their wicked activities.

The safest way is this : never give anyone your private keys
Never receive code and send to anyone
Avoid investment teachings from strangers

[CETAN.IO]

Telegram has nothing to do with the fraudsters, its the same way we say there are scammers or hackers on fb and Instagram.

People only use those platforms for their wicked activities.

The safest way is this : never give anyone your private keys
Never receive code and send to anyone
Avoid investment teachings from strangers

also, do not click on links or give access to phone data!

[muhammadrafi560]

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.

According to my humble opinion there is nothing wrong with telegram or any other social media channel. Scammers and fraudulent elements are everywhere. But there could be more filters to reduce their activities can be e implemented. Moreover, we should perform our responsibility responsibility to report them to cleanup the environment.

[lobo13hf]

Telegram makes it extremely easy for just about anyone with knowledge to tweak its several customizable features and use it strictly for selfish purposes often times for the bad reasons. There are several ways to impersonate, perpetrate identity theft, and assume just about any status to steal or defraud. Also, unlike other messaging and social media channels, Telegram provides the biggest platform for crypto projects to host their communities making the platform one of the most prone to unscrupulous elements. These are some of the reasons why there is so much fraud and scams associated with Telegram.

why do you think the crypto community supported Telegram?

Telegram is only running its service and it has nothing to do with crypto community and telegram never support crypto community. It looks like he doesn't even understand about that.
Since ico becomes a big bubble and scammers are looking for the victim in the telegram. This caused by mostly investors communicate with the team through telegram.

[CETAN.IO]

Telegram makes it extremely easy for just about anyone with knowledge to tweak its several customizable features and use it strictly for selfish purposes often times for the bad reasons. There are several ways to impersonate, perpetrate identity theft, and assume just about any status to steal or defraud. Also, unlike other messaging and social media channels, Telegram provides the biggest platform for crypto projects to host their communities making the platform one of the most prone to unscrupulous elements. These are some of the reasons why there is so much fraud and scams associated with Telegram.

why do you think the crypto community supported Telegram?

Telegram is only running its service and it has nothing to do with crypto community and telegram never support crypto community. It looks like he doesn't even understand about that.
Since ico becomes a big bubble and scammers are looking for the victim in the telegram. This caused by mostly investors communicate with the team through telegram.

and I think you don't understand what I mean when I write about community support! If we go to any ICO, IEO we will see Telegrams, not Whatsapp and not Wechat, so there was a question in this!

[Lasky366]

Well telegram is also a social media like other social media.By the way in telegram we notice not of scammers or spammers.Actually its not the fault of telegram's staff. Because there are some good guys there also some bad guys who try to scam people or even do the scam too.We salways should careful about this.

[Bezobraznike]

   Telegram is anonymous, and where is anonymity you can count there are scammers too. But if you are
an educated person you will not fall on the first message you receive. Scammers send messages, create
groups, but if you don't respond them, if you don't join suspicious groups, you will never be a victim of a
scammer on telegram!

[StephenJH]

Well telegram is also a social media like other social media.By the way in telegram we notice not of scammers or spammers.Actually its not the fault of telegram's staff. Because there are some good guys there also some bad guys who try to scam people or even do the scam too.We salways should careful about this.

The decentralized social media will have such disadvantages so I prefer semi-decentralized social media platforms for this reason. Many users try to cheat the newbies with sending the too good to be true offers and inexperienced traders fall to this trap easily. If there is no report by the Telegram users, the scammers will run free with robbed funds, fraudsters are not stupid to use the centralized social media and get arrested with giving up their real IP address.

[mdzahed134]

generally telegram fraud is very easy to reach, as we often see on telegram channels, you can create hundreds or even thousands of messages through bots in a short amount of time. so don't be surprised if fraudsters use this method to commit fraud.

You're correct in the telegram scammers can easily hit a large number of users because they using bots and send this same message within a few seconds. There are both advantages and disadvantages use of it. I got a lot of private message in every day which are mostly scammed. It’s a anonymous community even though users can easily change all of profile information it’s seems bullshit.                                      

[Mianae]

Telegram is not associated with fraudsters let's get it straight. For the fact that fraudulent actions are carried out on telegram does not in anyway show they're associated with such act. People engage in fraud on telegram because they're many cryptocurrency users there with every cryptocurrency project having their group and channels its easy to defraud unsuspecting users.

[Ezravdb]

Telegram is very close to cryptocurrency because every project establishes communication with the community through telegram. This is where the scammers appear to take advantage of the opportunity to deceive many people. I think we can avoid scammers by setting the privacy of our telegram account or you can block the scammer directly.

[sorrros]

Because everyone is anonymous here, you only need a phone number to create and account and getting a new mobile number is not hard, plus telegram takes great care of encrypted communication, so it protects its users but also give greater chance to scammers.