How secure are you when unknown user chats you up?

[SmartGold01]

Beware of scammers!!
Okay below are all rundown of what happened during the conversation
 


How secure do you feels when unknown user chats you and immediately begins to demand of your country where your chatting from?
What do you think could be their reason for chatting you up and instantly demanding your country of residence, does this makes any sense and how do you cope with such question or do you feels that such user has an evils motives towards you to either scam you or harm.
What are likelihood of this user not wanting to scam me because of his or her questions.

Sorry if this post doesn't belong here but I felt I should share to people for them to be aware how scammers operates in order to scam us due to our insecurities and being to open to them.

The screenshot above fully explain our discussion and immediately he noticed I wasn't being friendly to him he decided to runaway without going further, however I never thought of giving my username to anyone to chat me up or even negotiates deal with anybody, i saw this after i finished bathing my baby this morning.

Please I would love to get your reasoning concerning his or her actions.

[Jawhead999]

Caps lock, sir sir, using fake profile, and no point discussion, do you really think it's a good reason to believe the user is legit? a beautiful girl will not contact your first because they have a high prestige and egoism.

Do you offer a service in online and you're mention your telegram in order to reach you? if not, there's no reason to reply a stranger. I always avoid or delete all of stranger reply to my accounts.

[examplens]

It is almost always a question of the intention of fraud. The conversation usually starts with a short introduction, an inquiry about personal life and, if possible, giving a certain dose of empathy. It's actually a psychological game and it's trying to gain some kind of trust.
Everything is actually preparation for what follows, proposing a very profitable investment, business or whatever. Because you will more easily accept and believe in advice from someone you already know in some way. if you are a little more inert, it will be harder for you to tell him to screw up, and he will use that to pressure you to give in and believe his proposals.

If, for example, you would slow down the conversation or answer only briefly, the business proposal would arrive quite quickly, without further intimation. still want to try because you are responsive and didn't block him immediately.

Always keep in mind why a complete stranger would contact you and propose a super profitable job or investment. That doesn't even happen in fairy tales, there is always a final motive.
If such things bother you, right-click on the username and the "block" option is the solution. You should not allow any harassment from unknown people on the Internet

[Lucius]

Why do you even communicate with strangers that way? I understand that things like this cannot be avoided if you sell something online or offer some virtual services, but if you leave your contact around, then you can't expect anything other than that all kinds of strange people (scammers) will contact you.

If I were you, that chat would end after one or two messages, and that user would be blocked. It's not that I'm afraid that someone will deceive me or something similar, but I consider such things a complete waste of time.

[Charles-Tim]

I am fully secure in my view. I remember a person that chatted with me after I joined a telegram group, telling me that he is from Brazil and introduced me to meta trade or something. I laughed and start to take his time too. Where it landed is a lie from me to have a physical visit with me in my country. It ended as nothing, no scam success because I knew he was a scammer even before the start of our conversation. Nothing like online friends to me, they are all scammers and they have not disappointed me before not to be a good person. Recently I got busier and I just ignor strangers. I did not also join groups again and nothing like new stranger 's messaging.

[TheUltraElite]

On telegram you will see these profiles with female picture in the profile and usually not in another group with you - raises the question how they got your user ID to contact you. This is because of you are in a group, predatory people take the user IDs from there and spam every one of those with tempting messages from a different user id, so the other one remains in the group as an innocent bystander profile, pretty much a sockpuppet advantage that telegram gives them.

You can be assured that these are all scammers so block them on their first message and never reply back, it is a waste of time to do so.

[SmartGold01]

Do you offer a service in online and you're mention your telegram in order to reach you? if not, there's no reason to reply a stranger. I always avoid or delete all of stranger reply to my accounts.

Just as have said earlier, I have never involved myself with any online services or in dishing out my contact information to anyone else to contact me, as a matter of fact I was very surprised seeing such activity.

[Adbitco]

Maybe next when you found out his intentions weren't of good thoughts then blocking him or her would have been the best options.
Technically no learned and pretty female will chat you up and began to ask after your country without any any business deal or negotiation and transactions. To me is very suspicious and too risky to continue communicating with her before you could fall victim of being scammed, next is to block such people except in a case were you shared your contact to such person then you guys could continue discussion.

[UserU]

Perhaps the user is feeling lonely in a new country and needs a local as a penpal.

Jokes aside, could he have located you by searching your Telegram handle which might be the same as your username here?

[lovesmayfamilis]

This would be surprising to me, but other than that, my next action would be blacklisting the user.
Even if you want to sell or buy something, the conversation should always stay on topic. If you notice deviations from the topic, it indicates that something is wrong with the interlocutor.
Scammers catch naive people talking, but it's already 2023; it's rather strange to talk to strangers. Time ICQ has long passed.

[Coyster]

There is no security risk at the point of you receiving an unsolicited PM, i don't think there's any user who hasn't received such before, what matters is how you handle it or if you have the already existing knowledge about the modus operandi of scammers. I discovered that Bitcointalk forum users know how to detect and evade scam pretty easily because of the knowledge we garner here, but you'd be surprised at the number of people who fall for all this, or who don't know that if something is too good to be true, then it's prolly a scam.

Having said that, as long as you don't click random links from strangers, send them money, invest in whatever they offer or even continue a conversation with them, then you can't be scammed.

[holydarkness]

Heres some precautions you could probably use to give further assurance of your data safety in the future:

• Have a separate crypto TG --and social media-- from your personal life
• Check the username of anyone chatting you privately out of nowhere
• If there were none, it might be better for you to probably just ignore them straight away
• If they have a username, search that TG handlers here on the forum, either by search feature or through ninjastic, the result would pretty much give you a good idea of how trustworthy the person is
• A little bit no-brainer but... don't share your personal ID to anyone, unless you really trust them

That account will go straight to block and report if they chatted me, I won't even bother replied them, done that numerous times.

[SmartGold01]

Perhaps the user is feeling lonely in a new country and needs a local as a penpal.

Jokes aside, could he have located you by searching your Telegram handle which might be the same as your username here?

My answer to him was based on his questions so I was wanting to know his motives if he noticed I told him I am from his country. But No! I am not his country because I wasn't secure enough to tell him my location that's was why I responded him that way.

[Saisher]

Since I first open an account on Telegram I received almost more than 30 messages that are similar to what you posted, they may look very friendly to you but it's a big modus to gain your trust they will not tell you right away but they want you to be convenient after a few hours of convenient talk when you are comfortable with him/her they started talking about sites or platform that where they made a huge profit, even to the extent of showing his account and earnings, this is their way to entice you to invest.

If you are not aware of this scheme you will likely fall, I have Bitcointalk to thank for exposing this telegram schemes
My advice shut off all communications from unknown people on Telegram, telegram is not a good place to make friends you have no idea what his intention is, and Telegram is not a dating place, it's a platform for people with similar interests.

[bittraffic]

When its someone who knows you like a friend online or personally knows you, they will immediately say something for the conversation to start and not just saying Hi hello.

Ignore them and that''s how to secure yourself. If you see someone just saying Hi and hello, that is someone who wants to waste time. A person who has a purpose of chatting you will immediately pitch what they are offering and then you can immediately say no. End of story.

[YOSHIE]

Please I would love to get your reasoning concerning his or her actions.

I personally don't give opportunities to scammers who want to chat with me privately, I don't give opportunities and blocking their channels is my main goal.

But I don't block them right away, I will let them continue chatting and see where the chat progresses, if the chat goes off scale and leads to suspicious actions, of course the block button is my main target, but if users I don't know want to chat and ask good things, that's certainly not a reason for me to block them.

But if they are really scammers, I also don't let them continue chatting with me. they had little trouble talking to me, what more purpose to cheat.

[_BlackStar]

I'm not sure why you'd try to take the time to reply to few messages with someone you suspect might be. If I were you, I would block that user from the first message, no matter how pretty they look.

Then one other question, What does this thread have to do with reputation, does the user you spoke to on telegram have an account on bitcointalk and is trying to scam you or something? If this thread make for warning for attempted fraud unrelated to bitcointalk, then I hope you can move it to Begginers and Help or to the appropriate board.

[ScamViruS]

You didn't mention specific location so no worries. Almost every time I receive a message, Telegram users are very interested in knowing which country I live in now. Actually these are fraudsters they use different fake names and profile pictures to lure others and try to scam them in different ways. So after receiving such questions on Telegram it is safe to block them without continuing the conversation.

[electronicash]

it doesn't really look like its a scammer but if he waste his time with the chatter, he will find out whats its is up to.

seem nothing to worry. OP gives so much worries to this when he can just stop replying to that chat and even block the user. a girl named Sai looks beauty anyone would agree to that. unless OP is waiting for the intimate conversation and probably a phone sex after it, i can understand he wants to chat as well. 

[Igebotz]

This would be surprising to me, but other than that, my next action would be blacklisting the user.
Even if you want to sell or buy something, the conversation should always stay on topic. If you notice deviations from the topic, it indicates that something is wrong with the interlocutor.
Scammers catch naive people talking, but it's already 2023; it's rather strange to talk to strangers. Time ICQ has long passed.

Isn't that why they always choose a random beautiful Korean girl to possibly prolong the discussion and most times stay off topic in order to gain more attention? It's easier for a woman to end such conversation and move on, but trust me some men are moved by what they see and whether you like it or not, there are tons of men who fall for this cheap girls carp on TG.

There are still many men who send nudes to random strangers online; they are the type who are easily duped by this type of scam. This type of scam is common on TG, and I'm sure it pays, which is why it's still around.

I'm the type of guy who talks to them until they run out of words, then tells them to fck off and blocks them.