Becareful with telegram wallet!

[Jegileman]

Creating a secure non custodial wallet won't take up to ten minutes or even less. I don't know the level of conveniences these unsecured wallets offer that people tend to be making such mistakes of using them for their asset storage. Not your keys, not your coins has been an anthem for as old as crypto exits but we turn deaf ears until things get worse before we learn. This is not only applicable to Telegram wallet but to all wallets which you have no control over the phrases. It is as good as if you have no asset because the custodian can deny you access at any time.

Telegram is a social media platform and aside from anything relating to media that it can be used for, no any other innovations from them should be considered reliable, authentic or secured. Their wallets are a very big centralized wallets and anyone using or trading with them are on the brink of losing all of their funds. I have heard about the telegram wallet but I haven’t read about it or even knew it is for premium users only. This serves as a wake up call to those using it and those intending to use it. You don’t need to do anything relating to violation of the rule by transacting, even by your account been tagged for spamming or other social media related offences, your account will just be blocked or suspended forever. And with the information you just shared, I don’t think it is easily retrievable when blocked or suspended. It is better to stay away from it now than to be a victim of that.

[sheenshane]

Let us educate ourselves first rather than educate ourselves later.

It's a simple advice to secure your wallet.

First, we should know the basic principle of storing our Bitcoin safely.
Telegram?  Isn't sound safe to me.  You didn't hold your key.

[RockBell]

Telegram is a social media platform and aside from anything relating to media that it can be used for, no any other innovations from them should be considered reliable, authentic or secured. Their wallets are a very big centralized wallets and anyone using or trading with them are on the brink of losing all of their funds. I have heard about the telegram wallet but I haven’t read about it or even knew it is for premium users only. This serves as a wake up call to those using it and those intending to use it. You don’t need to do anything relating to violation of the rule by transacting, even by your account been tagged for spamming or other social media related offences, your account will just be blocked or suspended forever. And with the information you just shared, I don’t think it is easily retrievable when blocked or suspended. It is better to stay away from it now than to be a victim of that.

The purpose of telegram is for networking, i once used a telegram wallet once and it was successful and that was the first and last time i used it so i don't know if they improved it or not but using it was not interesting the futures were lame since it was not is purpose to perform such act and my problem with the telegram wallet it will even be very easy for people to hack, starting from if they can have access to your telegram account then the rest will be an easy one so its just like the disadvantages are more than the advantage we know people are thirsty for change. this kind of change is a risky one. we know the level of security that wallets have telegram can not have such wallet.  i don't think i will use it again because the security of my money matters a lot to me, considering a telegram wallet is a no for me.

[Bulltard]

Telegram?  Isn't sound safe to me.  You didn't hold your key.

Actually you do 

[johnsaributua]

Many replies here have been saying there's a back up phrase, how and where do you people find the back phrase that allows you to import it into external ton wallet? Before replying here, I just checked the wallet again but can't find where. By the way, I'm not interested in using the wallet for now but I want to verify whether it truly has back up phrase.

It is never too late to anticipate, because when we do our best to keep the phrase confidential is very important, because storage is the ultimate goal when we hunt crypto in any way.

First enter the telegram internal ton wallet then click the 3 dots on the top right, select settings and check the ton space beta and the menu appears as in step 1, select ton space in step 2 and step 3 appears, you are instructed to create a wallet or import 24 secret words, I gave an example of making the initial and select Manually as in picture 5 click continue as in the general wallet and your wallet is copied (best handwritten on paper) and you can store it calmly or can be exported to the external ton wallet.

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You can also delete and replace a new wallet at any time, select 3 dots on the top right select ton space beta and an image will appear as below, and you remove ton space follow the guidelines and finish.



Hopefully useful.

[Lamkuthang]

If such a case is very risky, it means that the user's funds are easily lost. I also get a lot of notifications and offers if you use their wallet there will be a free fee in USDT shipping fees but it is required to deposit some USDT in order to be active

Yes. This is a new experience and news and that's why you prefer to use Tonkeeper Wallet for TON instead of the type of wallet in the Telegram application using a mobile phone and most recently there is now an Earn campaign for Notcoins which lasts until May 25 on the Telegram channel. So be more careful if this is the story.

[Saint-loup]

Many replies here have been saying there's a back up phrase, how and where do you people find the back phrase that allows you to import it into external ton wallet? Before replying here, I just checked the wallet again but can't find where. By the way, I'm not interested in using the wallet for now but I want to verify whether it truly has back up phrase.

Actually the non-custodial wallet is in the custodial wallet. You need to create it there, as explain by johnsaributua above you have to activate the "TON Space" there, it's the name the non-custodial wallet in fact. Telegram will show your seed phrase when you'll create it and you will be able to access it in the Settings menu of the TON Space wallet everytime you need to remind it fortunately. But when you send TON with this wallet you will have to pay some fees because transactions will be sent onto the TON blockchain, contrary to transactions made with the custodial wallet.

[Fiasem20]

I've been hearing of telegram wallet and how investors have lost their coin in telegram wallet.Initially telegram is a social media where users pass informations online,not until it became a wallet where it's users can store,send and receive cyptrocurrency.Telegram wallet is not safe to store your coin,this message you've passed will serve as a warning to those investors that wants to try everything new in the crypto space.Store your coin in a non custodial wallet,even the newbies on the forum are aware because of how it's been repeated 24/7 on the forum.

[Kristiyana]

I've been hearing of telegram wallet and how investors have lost their coin in telegram wallet.Initially telegram is a social media where users pass informations online,not until it became a wallet where it's users can store,send and receive cyptrocurrency.Telegram wallet is not safe to store your coin,this message you've passed will serve as a warning to those investors that wants to try everything new in the crypto space.Store your coin in a non custodial wallet,even the newbies on the forum are aware because of how it's been repeated 24/7 on the forum.

Of course is always good to store our coin in non custodial wallet where no one can have access to our funds, using telegram wallet to store our assets is very risky. i still wonder why most people keep using telegram wallet to store most of there assets when there are so many wallets out there that is very trusted and secured just like this non custodial wallets, However i so much appreciate op for bringing this topic because most people are still yet to know that telegram wallet is very risky, but with the help of this topic I'm pretty sure that they're going to know now.

[Jaycoinz]

It's certain projects like this should be frowned out because the intention of the site at first was not a crypto wallet but rather it was designed to be a social media platform. All crypto asset was supposed to be stored in a non custodian wallet which is the only secure place for storing your coins because you are fully in charge of your security by holding your mnemonic seed. And paraventure your phone number get banned just as the op stated,  your wallet is gone including all your assets in it. Storing your coin in telegram wallet is a bad idea, I urge everyone to give it a frown and avoid it before you loss any asset.

[Kavelj22]

Of course is always good to store our coin in non custodial wallet where no one can have access to our funds, using telegram wallet to store our assets is very risky. i still wonder why most people keep using telegram wallet to store most of there assets when there are so many wallets out there that is very trusted and secured just like this non custodial wallets.

I am sure that most of the pioneers of this forum have become expert members in how to manage their assets, including choosing good wallets and using them in the best way, in addition to making good use of the features provided by blockchain technology according to the design of the protocol. On the other hand, I am sure that the vast majority of users outside the forum are still unable to make a good choice and can easily be influenced by advertisements that invite them to use this or that service. On this basis, fraudsters are still devising ways that enable them to victimize inexperienced users and steal their assets. Unfortunately, all of these victims do not do research before using any of the available applications.

It is true that Telegram is an advanced platform that benefits millions of users, but this does not necessarily make it a safe space for any service or activity. It would be better to avoid using it for everything related to asset management and limit yourself to services related to social media.

[Essential10]

Anyone can be cheated by Telegram app. Lately there have been several cases of fake investment schemes, frauds in the Telegram app. Various social media cryptocurrencies promote various coins, various newbies who have never invested with cryptocurrencies express interest and are invited through Telegram links. They act according to the instructions given to them and ask them to link the wallet to an important thing which makes it very dangerous for you and your wallet. So users should also be careful about sharing personal information or financial details with unknown persons on such platforms, you should think twice before engaging in such activities.

[Saint-loup]

Of course is always good to store our coin in non custodial wallet where no one can have access to our funds, using telegram wallet to store our assets is very risky. i still wonder why most people keep using telegram wallet to store most of there assets when there are so many wallets out there that is very trusted and secured just like this non custodial wallets, However i so much appreciate op for bringing this topic because most people are still yet to know that telegram wallet is very risky, but with the help of this topic I'm pretty sure that they're going to know now.

Now you need to provide your name, your birth date and your phone number in order to be allowed to use the custodial wallet of Telegram. So it should be easier to claim your assets at the customer support in case of a ban of your account. Anyway the non custodial wallet, TON Space is still fully available without providing any information, even its swap feature allowing to swap TON tokens from the wallet is still available.

[candymarkets]

Then if your telegram wallet and account is banned, what you can do if is premium telegram under your name ?