Deanonymizing the fraudster

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Have you been deceived or simply cheated on the vastness of Telegram? Or do you just want to find all the necessary information about a person? Then this article is for you!

Salute to all, dear friends!

Very often people write to me asking for help in finding the owner of a Telegram account. Everyone has their own reasons: someone was scammed by scammers, and someone just needs certain information. In this article, I have collected simple ways to deanonymize a Telegram account.

I am sure that this information will be useful to you. Let's get down to business!


The first and most important thing we need is the right thinking. Think like detectives - what clues do we have?
  • The account itself (its ID)
  • Username
  • Nickname
  • Avatar
  • Messages sent from the account
1. Knowing the ID, you should check the account for presence in the TG 40M database. This can be done through the same Eye of God, the current link to the bot is always on the project website: gb.sbs. If the account is in the leak, the bot will give you the phone number to which the account was registered.

Here are the methods for finding an account ID:
  • There are several ways.
First, a third-party TG client. I use Graph Messenger. It shows the ID of any account via the "three dots" button in the upper right corner of the screen. Additionally, you can copy the link to go to the profile (Mention ID), which is quite relevant for accounts without a username.

Secondly, you can use bots in Telegram. These are @getmyid_bot (you need to forward the message) or @telesint_bot (you need to send the username). The method with forwarding the message only works if the account you are looking for has the appropriate privacy settings. The method with TeleSINT works if the account has a username (@username).

2. We also have a nickname and username. Let's use the nickname search tools (for example, @maigret_osint_bot ) to search for other accounts of the same user.

It would also be a good idea to check what nicknames were on the account before. For this, you can use @SangMataInfo_bot or @telesint_bot. And repeat the search by old nicknames.

3. Download the account avatars, and then look for exact copies of the photo (using Yandex and Google). If there is a face in the photo, try searching for photos of the same person using face search resources such as Search4Faces and FindClone. Everything is very simple there, you can handle it without additional instructions.

4. You can find the account's messages in public chats using the @telesint_bot bot. There may be useful clues, photos and pictures to which you can apply the search methods from point 3. As well as personal data, such as a phone number or email.

5. Bonus point - social engineering. Try to get to know a person, embed a logger (for example, iplogger.ru) in a Telegraph article and convince the account owner to open the article.
 
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