I tried this on my phone and my sister's phone, this is what I got on my phone and my sister phone:

When sms is not necessary, I think Telegram only just give sms as an excuse. The second is about fake accounts which I think will be because of scammers. But scammers will always still have their ways on Telegram.
Do you think this is enough? I do not like this restrictions against Nigerians.
Have came across it too but I guess the payment is for the premium for one week. Is like paying for a Portion of the premium package .
I won’t blame , after telegram going boom last year a lot folk had to register due to the fact that folk was literally making money from doing telegram mini app airdrops , and then a lot users had to pay for premium, to have more chances to make something good from the particular airdrop they where farming .
But now that no one is hearing about those mini app any more , a lot of telegram users are now inactive there , which means and most folk are not seeing any good reason to do telegram premium.