
Unauthentic payment proof: When you join a group where many members are showing off payment proofs that should immediately get your Spidey senses up.Imagine a stranger offering you a 150% return on your investment. In my experience, a juicy offer is more often than not, a scam. If a stranger you have never given out your username to contacts you out of the blue asking you to try out one juicy offer or the other, you should immediately chalk it off as a scam. You were contacted by a stranger who invited you to a group or website that turned out to be a scam. But most telegram scam stories start out like this. Contact by strangers: It’s easy to gloss over this.

You right want to consider bookmarking this page. I’ve compiled a quick list of the red flags to look out for on telegram to ensure you will never fall for a telegram scam again. This is why I’m giving you all the information you need. This is mainly due to naivety and lack of information on the part of these victims. But sadly, many still fall for these scams even in 2020. Many times they also use the telegram secret chat feature to prevent you from redirecting the chat to a third-party who could track them down. To make sure there’s no evidence of their crime, with telegram clear chat feature these scammers will erase all records of your conversations with them. And then if you’re gullible enough to engage them, they instantly block you. Scammers have created all kinds of scam groups promising huge returns on investment. Scammers have since made telegram their platform of choice due to the same beautiful features that makes all of us love telegram. You don’t even need to have the mobile numbers of people, with just their telegram usernames, you can find anyone. It’s easy, effective, and most importantly, free. In fact, I recommend telegram to anyone thinking of ever launching a startup. Many legitimate startups still make use of telegram groups to instantly reach their audience. Telegram also allows you to easily design and use bots to manage these groups.

You can also create Telegram channels that worked like newsfeed that you can use to broadcast messages. For example, you could create a super group that could house up to 200,000 group members. Telegram provided very useful features for startups. If you’re launching a product or a platform, you’ll need a platform where you can easily engage with potential customers and users. Legit ICOs and scam ICOs had one of many things in common – Telegram groups. At least 90% of ICOs turned out to be scams, that is not news. Remember when ICOs (Initial Coin Offering) were still a thing? Feels like so long ago. Because of its many awesome features, Telegram has since drawn the attention of scammers who use it to lure unsuspecting ones to part with their money. In fact, we are sure that was exactly why you clicked on this post. And I can also see the chat history of the groups I join.

For me, it’s the fact that I can edit already sent messages. If you’re a regular telegram user, you certainly have your favorite features. What’s the big deal, isn’t it just like WhatsApp? Yeah, it has some similarities, true but it is faster, more secure, and has more features than WhatsApp. Its Alexa rank of 188 is no surprise considering telegram boasts over 1 million new users every day.

To say the App has become popular is a great understatement. Apps are available on all major operating systems: Android, IoS, Windows, etc. For those who don’t know, Telegram was invented in 2013 by Pavel Durov and Nikiolai Durov (Russians) as an instant messaging service you could use to exchange texts, videos, photos, make voice and video calls, etc. And if you don’t you should Google it right now, download, and start using the App.
