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Telegram is a very dangerous place, first of all for your wallet. In this topic, we analyzed the scam schemes in Telegram, and also exposed one of them. After reading this material, you will not think about how not to fall for a scam in Telegram.
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You are sitting or standing in a chat, and suddenly a guy writes to you with an offer to earn a million in a week or sends you a photo of your crypto winnings. Sounds like a fairy tale. Only this fairy tale ends with an empty wallet. Today I will tell you how scammers work in Telegram, expose the scheme with cameras, why even smart people lose millions and how not to become their next victim. Let's get started.
Chapter 1. Telegram is a paradise for scammers, or not.
You think that Telegram is just a messenger for chatting with friends or a channel with memes, but you are very much mistaken. For scammers, this is a real gold mine, everything is anonymous here, at first glance, chats are encrypted, and the police are almost powerless. Well, or not quite. It is easier to create a channel, throw in a couple of fake screenshots, successful deals and start cheating people than to order a pizza.
An example, a friend of mine, who was not particularly smart, I'll be honest here, once came across a channel where a guy promised to double any transfer in crypto. Yes, it sounds funny to us and to you when you read the topic called "Scam in Telegram", but everything was not obvious there. Do you know what happened to him next? He almost sent him 200 bucks, but noticed in time that all his reviews were screenshots with the same dates. A trifle, but it saved his wallet.
Scammers in Telegram are no longer schoolchildren with their mother's laptop. These are organized schemes, where psychologists, designers and even bots sit, who know how to gain your trust. And the worst thing is that they hunt absolutely everyone, from students to pensioners. Do you want to know how they do it? Read the topic further.
Chapter 2. How does the divorce begin?
Imagine you get a message from a stranger:
"Hi, you won $5,000 in crypto." Or: "I'm an investor. Let's make money on the stock exchange. Just send me a hundred bucks for personal management."
Sounds tempting, right? They'll write to you so convincingly that you'll already be imagining yourself buying a new computer, phone, and whatever. But then, for the sake of decency, ask them, "Where are the guarantees?" I assure you that most people will drop out. This is a classic scam. Fraudsters usually play on emotions. This is greed, fear of missing out, or even pity. They can pretend to be your friend who got into trouble or a rich trader who wants to help beginners.
They often use fake accounts with photos of successful people, yachts, wads of money, and the like. They also like to throw evidence, screenshots of transfers, reviews, and even videos. But here's the funny thing - it's all fake. For example, I know a bunch of people who fell for an investment channel like the one we discussed earlier and dropped 300,000 rubles for training, and a week later the channel simply disappeared. What do you think they felt? I think they felt a burning sensation in their butt.
Chapter 3. The fraudster was exposed.
Experiment. Absolutely all channels for the query "cryptocurrency", "cryptocurrency training", "cryptocurrency arbitrage". Searches on Telegram are nothing more than a scam. The licked boys in the channel photos are all front men. But maybe we are wrong. Let's check it out. The training will concern cryptocurrency arbitrage. Cryptocurrency arbitrage is a type of earnings in crypto based on the difference in asset prices. Simply put, bought cheaper and sold more expensive. This is how earnings are built.
Everything is described very beautifully. All we need to do is make transfers and earn on the spread. After the introductory information, we were provided with the exchanges on which we will actually work. What do these guys earn on? What is the point of the scheme? How do they justify it all? According to the legend, we, having earned from their bundle, must send them 40% of the profit.
Everything is described very well, it may seem like a beginner, but personally I already have questions. We went further and took a risk for the sake of content, sending 50 bucks. And surprisingly, the first transfer we made returned with a profit of 8 bucks, which was again a surprise for me personally. At this point, you might think, hmm, if I made 16% so easily from 50 bucks, then from 1000 dollars it will already be 160 bucks, that's where it will most likely end.
We did not send these 58 dollars further and certainly did not increase the bank. In general, after the return of 58 bucks, it was obvious that the trainer was starting to put pressure on us, offering bundles that already cost money, from 50 to 250, but also with a spread higher is obvious.
On arbitrage, as I said earlier, you can really make money, but a community that really knows its stuff will never throw bundles around left and right. After all, if something gets into the public domain, it instantly becomes irrelevant. That is why we cover various scam schemes, because we know there will be a lot of people who will go and create the same scam scheme and kill it with banal competition. So we carry out a socially useful function together with you.
Chapter 4. Popular scam schemes.
Now let's look at what scams are the most popular in Telegram.
Scheme 1 - investments. You are promised 200% profit in a week if you invest money in a secret project. But alas, no one will tell you where this interest comes from, and it may turn out that this is a sudden company secret. After all, if you find out where such interest comes from, you will create the same project and earn millions of billions. Many will happily fly into such a topic when they see an advertisement, for example, of a crypto bot, which allegedly trades itself and brings in millions.
Scheme 2 - fake sweepstakes. They write to you that you have won an iPhone, bitcoin, you need to pay a commission for the transfer. The scam is as old and bearded as the world, but believe me, the fact that it is old does not make the number of victims any smaller.
Scheme 3 — selling fake goods. These could be game accounts, Netflix subscriptions, and even secret courses on making money. I often hear stories of someone buying a crypto course for 50 thousand and receiving a PDF with publicly available information from Google. Incidentally, this is done not only by Telegram scammers, but also by seemingly famous bloggers with a long-standing reputation, for example, like Litvin, Suba, and... What was that bearded guy's name? Guseyn Hasan. Something like that. In general, they feed their audience absolute crap — public information under the guise of something secret, and the people swallow it and feed them.
The most vile scheme is blackmail. Fraudsters hack your account, find personal photos and threaten to leak them to all your contacts if you don't pay, or write to all your contacts on your behalf asking to borrow money for an urgent operation or something like that. In general, such nonsense.
Right now, I recommend turning on the cloud password function in Telegram. Keep your account safe. And the most important thing you need to know is - If someone blackmails you, do not answer. Negotiations are not conducted with terrorists.
Chapter 5. How scammers gain trust.
Do you think that scammers are some kind of obvious clowns who can be easily spotted from a mile and a mile away? No. An experienced scammer is a psychologist who knows what to press. After all, over the course of thousands of mammoth closures, patterns of their behavior emerge, and the scheme is honed to perfection. They know how to make you believe. For example, they can correspond with you for weeks, pretending to be a friend, and then scam you for a large sum. Well, or not so large. It can be different.
Scammers can be unobvious. You can work with a person on the Internet for a very long time, buy something from him, maybe some consumables for your business, order a design, anything. And at one point, in a friendly way, he asks you to borrow 200 bucks. Since you have been working for a long time, you think that it is simply pointless for him to scam you, because he receives the same amount of money from you in a week's salary for design. And the amount, in truth, is small, and you lend the money and are left without money and without a designer. What happened in this person's head, you will never know. Did he just want to get out of business and earn some extra money? Maybe. And maybe not.
Scammers also like to create a whole community - channels with a bunch of fake participants, praising projects, constant successful success and all this story. It's like a theater where you are the only spectator who does not know that everything is rigged. And they also put pressure on urgency - invest money now or miss the chance. In general, urgency is a clear sign that something is wrong here. Any business can wait, but not scam schemes.
Chapter 6. A real story from life.
I want to tell you a real story that still gives me goosebumps, mostly from misunderstanding and injustice. I have a friend, let's call her Katya, she was looking for a part-time job on the Internet. She came across a Telegram channel that offered to pack parcels at home. And it all sounded very simple - I send you goods, you repack them and resend them where I tell you. And I will pay you 50 thousand rubles a month.
Katya contacted the SR employer, he asked for 10 thousand rubles as a deposit for registration and delivery of equipment, well, it is not clear what kind, she sent the money, and then silence. That's it. Katya, by the way, was a housewife, all this Internet stuff, she did not know what it was.
But in fact, she was left without money and with a bunch of debts. In fact, she is an educated girl with a higher education, and this is true. But being educated and smart are two completely different things. Scammers know how to find your weak point. SI skills help them with this. And you know, maybe I will seem like a strange person, but I sincerely believe that Katya was lucky. Having lost 10 thousand rubles, she gained invaluable experience and did not fall for the next scheme, which would have also taken place.
Let's imagine that instead of a stupid scam for ten, she really had been given a job. But what kind of job would it be? Let's guess right away what parcels need to be packed and resent somewhere. Drum roll, bingo, it would most likely be PAF - Psychoactive substances. And Katya's situation would have been much more deplorable than an additional loss of 10 thousand rubles. Of course, she would hardly have been hired as a warehouse worker with such small deposits and no experience, but you must understand that anything can happen here, and you must be careful.
Chapter 7. How does a scam work at the technology level?
Now let's look behind the scenes. Telegram scammers are not just guys with phones. They have, I repeat, entire systems, they use bots that automatically send thousands of messages, they create fake sites that literally look like exchanges or stores. Returning to our scam from Chapter 3, the teacher who taught arbitrage, he gave an exchange that really looked good.
And do not be surprised when you click on a link from some random investment channel, and an exact copy of Binance opens for you, but the address will be slightly different. I think there is no need to explain what will happen to your account if you try to log in to the site. They also like to use phishing. This is when you follow a link, and it steals your passwords or card details. Or you enter them yourself.
In short, this is how the Avito scam works. People write to various sellers, or they post ads themselves. And at the moment of payment, or payment for delivery, there are actually a lot of variations, we will not dwell on this. People were given a link to an exact copy of the payment page, where you either need to pay for delivery, or pay for the goods and all that stuff. What happened next? The card data flew to their person, who immediately emptied it. As a result, the person is left without money, finish.
Another thing - multi-accounts, when one fraudster manages dozens of profiles, pretending to be different people. I know cases when a guy thought he was communicating with a whole team of traders, in brackets, but in fact it was one person who managed 20 accounts. This can be called a complicated triangle, call it whatever you like and the worst thing is that they track all your actions if you, for example, actively like posts about crypto, the bot sees this and starts spamming you with profitable offers,
or the latest and still relevant scourge of Telegram is neurocommenting. I think you've noticed these random comments from half-naked girls on the topic of the post. When you go to their personal profile, you see investment channels, which, as a rule, are also a scam.
Chapter 8. How not to become a victim?
Now the main thing is how to protect yourself?
1. Never transfer money to strangers and people without a reputation, even if they seem super friendly and throw evidence.
2. Check everything. If you are given a link to a site, look at the address. Fake sites often have extra letters or numbers. I always copy the address and google it myself before clicking. And ideally, enter it manually in the search, so you can be 100% sure.
3. Don't believe in easy money If you are promised a million in a week, it's a scam. I once saw an ad that promised 1000% profit in a day. Sounds like nonsense? But believe me, people fell for it.
4. Use two-factor authentication. On Telegram, anywhere, on Binance. Put it wherever you can. Don't click on suspicious links.
5. Trust your intuition. If something seems too good to be true, then it's not your imagination. I myself have sensed a catch more than once and refused lucrative offers, and I have never regretted it.
It is better not to earn than to lose much more. Next. Check the reputation of the person you are working with. Nowadays, there are a huge number of forums where you can transparently see the comments and reviews of people who have worked with this person. If a person has no reputation on any forum, you should simply not deal with such a person, period. It is important that the comments are very old. If a person has a reputation for one or two months, you should think about whether everything is okay.
If there are literally 30-40 of them, well, it doesn't look very good. Yes, it's true, it's better than nothing, but I would still give preference to a person with a reputation of two or three years. And it's important, with positive, negative, any comments and disputes that were closed, and not just positive-positive-positive. Working with clients is always accompanied by awkward situations, and it's simply impossible for everything to go smoothly.
Chapter 9. What to do if you've already been screwed?
Let's say you've been caught. What to do? First of all, don't panic. I know how painful it is, how unpleasant it is to lose money for no reason. I'll tell you right away, the chances of getting your money back are practically zero. Unfortunately, that's how the system works. Cryptocurrency helps with that, wallets without verification and all that stuff. Secondly, change all your passwords and enable two-factor authentication so as not to lose even more. If such an option is even possible for you to be hacked. It applies more to people who downloaded some files or software from the person who scammed them. And most importantly, do not blame yourself. Fraudsters are sometimes professionals who deceive even the smartest people. It is easier to think that you fell for some scam guru who scammed tens of thousands of people than for some 15-year-old schoolboy. I speak from my own experience. And I will be honest, after my first case of scamming, and it was a large amount, I could not sleep for two days. But then I understood the most important thing. This is a lesson that made me smarter. The main thing is not to get depressed.
Chapter 10. Why Telegram does not fight scammers?
You will be surprised, but Telegram is actively fighting scammers. You can notice this by the number of banned accounts, which recently and, perhaps, in September of last year have become unrealistically large. Anything can be banned. You violate the rule minimally - "ban", you have some incorrect information in the channel - "ban", this is an innovation, and such large blocks came after the introduction of AI moderation.
It is almost impossible to restore a Telegram channel, because there is no moderation as such in Telegram. Who exactly to write to, the manager, there is no such thing here. It is outsourced here. Actually, that is why scammers do not have the opportunity to restore their channels and continue to operate. Therefore, it is not entirely correct to say that Telegram does not fight fraud in Telegram. Another thing is that the number of scammers themselves is not decreasing. In connection with the latest refusal of Pavel Durov to provide encryption keys for the French government in the EU, many people again believed in the anonymity of Telegram.
But this is not true. Telegram is not anonymous in the true sense of the word from the very beginning. If you communicate in a regular chat, like with your friend, for example, your correspondence is on Telegram servers. How can you check this? Just log in to your account from another phone. This correspondence will be pulled from somewhere, respectively, somewhere there is a database in which this correspondence is actually located. If you want truly anonymous communication, create a secret chat. It uses encryption, in which the data is only on your phone and on the phone of your counterpart with whom you are corresponding. Here we can talk about some security, but not absolute. This is why many young guys, mistaken in the confidence in the anonymity of Telegram, work here without any cover, logging into personal phones and all that. The next chapter is about how scammers are caught.
Chapter 11. How are scammers caught and are they caught at all?
There are a huge number of variations on how to identify scammers, I will tell you about some of them now.
First. By checking the phone number. The most short-sighted scammers register accounts on their personal numbers. I will not reveal America by saying that you can find almost all the information about a person by phone number, and even if you hid your phone number in the Telegram settings, this does not mean anything.
Bots know your phone number by checking, and if you used it in real life, rest assured that it has already been leaked to some public databases. What will happen next? Masks, show and investigation, most likely.
Social engineering. Let's say you blocked some person who understands more or less. He writes to you from another account, since you logically blocked the first one, and you are conducting, it would seem, a chat with a new person. You try to close him, so to speak. Among all the correspondence with this person, they throw you some random link like a picture. In general, they can give a link to anything. There may be an IP logger under the link. Voila, the person gets your IP. If you are sitting under your network, that's the end.
The next thing is metadata. Any picture you took with your phone in any video you made contains so-called metadata. If you are interested in more details about what it is, watch the video from Overbuffer. He covered this topic perfectly, we will not drag it out here.
In general, having a photo taken with your device, you can be identified because the phone by default adds a lot of information in the description of the picture itself and knowing this information, your enemy can be your bob. Telegram is a really cool messenger, but for scammers it is like a playground, they will promise you millions, iPhones, an easy life, but in the end they will take your last money.
I myself have fallen for a scam many times, because I am a trivially trusting person, but the fact that I understand what I am talking about is 100%, but on the other hand, now you know how they work and how to protect yourself. Remember, your caution is your strength, do not let yourself be deceived.
If you liked the topic, put a like and write comments, whether you have fallen for a scam in Telegram. And of course, if you do not know who is Mamont in the scheme, then Mamont is most likely you. Take care of yourself, bye!
Contents:
- Introduction
- Topics of the article
- Chapter 1. Is Telegram a Paradise for Scammers or Not?
- Chapter 2. How does divorce begin?
- Chapter 3. Exposing one of the scammers
- Chapter 4. Popular Scam Schemes (Don't Get Caught)
- Chapter 5. How scammers gain trust
- Chapter 6. A True Life Story
- Chapter 7. Scam at the technology level
- Chapter 8. How not to become a victim
- Chapter 9. What to do if you get caught in a scam
- Chapter 10. Why Telegram Doesn't Fight Fraudsters
- Chapter 11. How to spot scammers
You are sitting or standing in a chat, and suddenly a guy writes to you with an offer to earn a million in a week or sends you a photo of your crypto winnings. Sounds like a fairy tale. Only this fairy tale ends with an empty wallet. Today I will tell you how scammers work in Telegram, expose the scheme with cameras, why even smart people lose millions and how not to become their next victim. Let's get started.
Chapter 1. Telegram is a paradise for scammers, or not.
You think that Telegram is just a messenger for chatting with friends or a channel with memes, but you are very much mistaken. For scammers, this is a real gold mine, everything is anonymous here, at first glance, chats are encrypted, and the police are almost powerless. Well, or not quite. It is easier to create a channel, throw in a couple of fake screenshots, successful deals and start cheating people than to order a pizza.
An example, a friend of mine, who was not particularly smart, I'll be honest here, once came across a channel where a guy promised to double any transfer in crypto. Yes, it sounds funny to us and to you when you read the topic called "Scam in Telegram", but everything was not obvious there. Do you know what happened to him next? He almost sent him 200 bucks, but noticed in time that all his reviews were screenshots with the same dates. A trifle, but it saved his wallet.
Scammers in Telegram are no longer schoolchildren with their mother's laptop. These are organized schemes, where psychologists, designers and even bots sit, who know how to gain your trust. And the worst thing is that they hunt absolutely everyone, from students to pensioners. Do you want to know how they do it? Read the topic further.
Chapter 2. How does the divorce begin?
Imagine you get a message from a stranger:
"Hi, you won $5,000 in crypto." Or: "I'm an investor. Let's make money on the stock exchange. Just send me a hundred bucks for personal management."
Sounds tempting, right? They'll write to you so convincingly that you'll already be imagining yourself buying a new computer, phone, and whatever. But then, for the sake of decency, ask them, "Where are the guarantees?" I assure you that most people will drop out. This is a classic scam. Fraudsters usually play on emotions. This is greed, fear of missing out, or even pity. They can pretend to be your friend who got into trouble or a rich trader who wants to help beginners.
They often use fake accounts with photos of successful people, yachts, wads of money, and the like. They also like to throw evidence, screenshots of transfers, reviews, and even videos. But here's the funny thing - it's all fake. For example, I know a bunch of people who fell for an investment channel like the one we discussed earlier and dropped 300,000 rubles for training, and a week later the channel simply disappeared. What do you think they felt? I think they felt a burning sensation in their butt.
Chapter 3. The fraudster was exposed.
Experiment. Absolutely all channels for the query "cryptocurrency", "cryptocurrency training", "cryptocurrency arbitrage". Searches on Telegram are nothing more than a scam. The licked boys in the channel photos are all front men. But maybe we are wrong. Let's check it out. The training will concern cryptocurrency arbitrage. Cryptocurrency arbitrage is a type of earnings in crypto based on the difference in asset prices. Simply put, bought cheaper and sold more expensive. This is how earnings are built.
Everything is described very beautifully. All we need to do is make transfers and earn on the spread. After the introductory information, we were provided with the exchanges on which we will actually work. What do these guys earn on? What is the point of the scheme? How do they justify it all? According to the legend, we, having earned from their bundle, must send them 40% of the profit.
Everything is described very well, it may seem like a beginner, but personally I already have questions. We went further and took a risk for the sake of content, sending 50 bucks. And surprisingly, the first transfer we made returned with a profit of 8 bucks, which was again a surprise for me personally. At this point, you might think, hmm, if I made 16% so easily from 50 bucks, then from 1000 dollars it will already be 160 bucks, that's where it will most likely end.
We did not send these 58 dollars further and certainly did not increase the bank. In general, after the return of 58 bucks, it was obvious that the trainer was starting to put pressure on us, offering bundles that already cost money, from 50 to 250, but also with a spread higher is obvious.
On arbitrage, as I said earlier, you can really make money, but a community that really knows its stuff will never throw bundles around left and right. After all, if something gets into the public domain, it instantly becomes irrelevant. That is why we cover various scam schemes, because we know there will be a lot of people who will go and create the same scam scheme and kill it with banal competition. So we carry out a socially useful function together with you.
Chapter 4. Popular scam schemes.
Now let's look at what scams are the most popular in Telegram.
Scheme 1 - investments. You are promised 200% profit in a week if you invest money in a secret project. But alas, no one will tell you where this interest comes from, and it may turn out that this is a sudden company secret. After all, if you find out where such interest comes from, you will create the same project and earn millions of billions. Many will happily fly into such a topic when they see an advertisement, for example, of a crypto bot, which allegedly trades itself and brings in millions.
Scheme 2 - fake sweepstakes. They write to you that you have won an iPhone, bitcoin, you need to pay a commission for the transfer. The scam is as old and bearded as the world, but believe me, the fact that it is old does not make the number of victims any smaller.
Scheme 3 — selling fake goods. These could be game accounts, Netflix subscriptions, and even secret courses on making money. I often hear stories of someone buying a crypto course for 50 thousand and receiving a PDF with publicly available information from Google. Incidentally, this is done not only by Telegram scammers, but also by seemingly famous bloggers with a long-standing reputation, for example, like Litvin, Suba, and... What was that bearded guy's name? Guseyn Hasan. Something like that. In general, they feed their audience absolute crap — public information under the guise of something secret, and the people swallow it and feed them.
The most vile scheme is blackmail. Fraudsters hack your account, find personal photos and threaten to leak them to all your contacts if you don't pay, or write to all your contacts on your behalf asking to borrow money for an urgent operation or something like that. In general, such nonsense.
Right now, I recommend turning on the cloud password function in Telegram. Keep your account safe. And the most important thing you need to know is - If someone blackmails you, do not answer. Negotiations are not conducted with terrorists.
Chapter 5. How scammers gain trust.
Do you think that scammers are some kind of obvious clowns who can be easily spotted from a mile and a mile away? No. An experienced scammer is a psychologist who knows what to press. After all, over the course of thousands of mammoth closures, patterns of their behavior emerge, and the scheme is honed to perfection. They know how to make you believe. For example, they can correspond with you for weeks, pretending to be a friend, and then scam you for a large sum. Well, or not so large. It can be different.
Scammers can be unobvious. You can work with a person on the Internet for a very long time, buy something from him, maybe some consumables for your business, order a design, anything. And at one point, in a friendly way, he asks you to borrow 200 bucks. Since you have been working for a long time, you think that it is simply pointless for him to scam you, because he receives the same amount of money from you in a week's salary for design. And the amount, in truth, is small, and you lend the money and are left without money and without a designer. What happened in this person's head, you will never know. Did he just want to get out of business and earn some extra money? Maybe. And maybe not.
Scammers also like to create a whole community - channels with a bunch of fake participants, praising projects, constant successful success and all this story. It's like a theater where you are the only spectator who does not know that everything is rigged. And they also put pressure on urgency - invest money now or miss the chance. In general, urgency is a clear sign that something is wrong here. Any business can wait, but not scam schemes.
Chapter 6. A real story from life.
I want to tell you a real story that still gives me goosebumps, mostly from misunderstanding and injustice. I have a friend, let's call her Katya, she was looking for a part-time job on the Internet. She came across a Telegram channel that offered to pack parcels at home. And it all sounded very simple - I send you goods, you repack them and resend them where I tell you. And I will pay you 50 thousand rubles a month.
Katya contacted the SR employer, he asked for 10 thousand rubles as a deposit for registration and delivery of equipment, well, it is not clear what kind, she sent the money, and then silence. That's it. Katya, by the way, was a housewife, all this Internet stuff, she did not know what it was.
But in fact, she was left without money and with a bunch of debts. In fact, she is an educated girl with a higher education, and this is true. But being educated and smart are two completely different things. Scammers know how to find your weak point. SI skills help them with this. And you know, maybe I will seem like a strange person, but I sincerely believe that Katya was lucky. Having lost 10 thousand rubles, she gained invaluable experience and did not fall for the next scheme, which would have also taken place.
Let's imagine that instead of a stupid scam for ten, she really had been given a job. But what kind of job would it be? Let's guess right away what parcels need to be packed and resent somewhere. Drum roll, bingo, it would most likely be PAF - Psychoactive substances. And Katya's situation would have been much more deplorable than an additional loss of 10 thousand rubles. Of course, she would hardly have been hired as a warehouse worker with such small deposits and no experience, but you must understand that anything can happen here, and you must be careful.
Chapter 7. How does a scam work at the technology level?
Now let's look behind the scenes. Telegram scammers are not just guys with phones. They have, I repeat, entire systems, they use bots that automatically send thousands of messages, they create fake sites that literally look like exchanges or stores. Returning to our scam from Chapter 3, the teacher who taught arbitrage, he gave an exchange that really looked good.
And do not be surprised when you click on a link from some random investment channel, and an exact copy of Binance opens for you, but the address will be slightly different. I think there is no need to explain what will happen to your account if you try to log in to the site. They also like to use phishing. This is when you follow a link, and it steals your passwords or card details. Or you enter them yourself.
In short, this is how the Avito scam works. People write to various sellers, or they post ads themselves. And at the moment of payment, or payment for delivery, there are actually a lot of variations, we will not dwell on this. People were given a link to an exact copy of the payment page, where you either need to pay for delivery, or pay for the goods and all that stuff. What happened next? The card data flew to their person, who immediately emptied it. As a result, the person is left without money, finish.
Another thing - multi-accounts, when one fraudster manages dozens of profiles, pretending to be different people. I know cases when a guy thought he was communicating with a whole team of traders, in brackets, but in fact it was one person who managed 20 accounts. This can be called a complicated triangle, call it whatever you like and the worst thing is that they track all your actions if you, for example, actively like posts about crypto, the bot sees this and starts spamming you with profitable offers,
or the latest and still relevant scourge of Telegram is neurocommenting. I think you've noticed these random comments from half-naked girls on the topic of the post. When you go to their personal profile, you see investment channels, which, as a rule, are also a scam.
Chapter 8. How not to become a victim?
Now the main thing is how to protect yourself?
1. Never transfer money to strangers and people without a reputation, even if they seem super friendly and throw evidence.
2. Check everything. If you are given a link to a site, look at the address. Fake sites often have extra letters or numbers. I always copy the address and google it myself before clicking. And ideally, enter it manually in the search, so you can be 100% sure.
3. Don't believe in easy money If you are promised a million in a week, it's a scam. I once saw an ad that promised 1000% profit in a day. Sounds like nonsense? But believe me, people fell for it.
4. Use two-factor authentication. On Telegram, anywhere, on Binance. Put it wherever you can. Don't click on suspicious links.
5. Trust your intuition. If something seems too good to be true, then it's not your imagination. I myself have sensed a catch more than once and refused lucrative offers, and I have never regretted it.
It is better not to earn than to lose much more. Next. Check the reputation of the person you are working with. Nowadays, there are a huge number of forums where you can transparently see the comments and reviews of people who have worked with this person. If a person has no reputation on any forum, you should simply not deal with such a person, period. It is important that the comments are very old. If a person has a reputation for one or two months, you should think about whether everything is okay.
If there are literally 30-40 of them, well, it doesn't look very good. Yes, it's true, it's better than nothing, but I would still give preference to a person with a reputation of two or three years. And it's important, with positive, negative, any comments and disputes that were closed, and not just positive-positive-positive. Working with clients is always accompanied by awkward situations, and it's simply impossible for everything to go smoothly.
Chapter 9. What to do if you've already been screwed?
Let's say you've been caught. What to do? First of all, don't panic. I know how painful it is, how unpleasant it is to lose money for no reason. I'll tell you right away, the chances of getting your money back are practically zero. Unfortunately, that's how the system works. Cryptocurrency helps with that, wallets without verification and all that stuff. Secondly, change all your passwords and enable two-factor authentication so as not to lose even more. If such an option is even possible for you to be hacked. It applies more to people who downloaded some files or software from the person who scammed them. And most importantly, do not blame yourself. Fraudsters are sometimes professionals who deceive even the smartest people. It is easier to think that you fell for some scam guru who scammed tens of thousands of people than for some 15-year-old schoolboy. I speak from my own experience. And I will be honest, after my first case of scamming, and it was a large amount, I could not sleep for two days. But then I understood the most important thing. This is a lesson that made me smarter. The main thing is not to get depressed.
Chapter 10. Why Telegram does not fight scammers?
You will be surprised, but Telegram is actively fighting scammers. You can notice this by the number of banned accounts, which recently and, perhaps, in September of last year have become unrealistically large. Anything can be banned. You violate the rule minimally - "ban", you have some incorrect information in the channel - "ban", this is an innovation, and such large blocks came after the introduction of AI moderation.
It is almost impossible to restore a Telegram channel, because there is no moderation as such in Telegram. Who exactly to write to, the manager, there is no such thing here. It is outsourced here. Actually, that is why scammers do not have the opportunity to restore their channels and continue to operate. Therefore, it is not entirely correct to say that Telegram does not fight fraud in Telegram. Another thing is that the number of scammers themselves is not decreasing. In connection with the latest refusal of Pavel Durov to provide encryption keys for the French government in the EU, many people again believed in the anonymity of Telegram.
But this is not true. Telegram is not anonymous in the true sense of the word from the very beginning. If you communicate in a regular chat, like with your friend, for example, your correspondence is on Telegram servers. How can you check this? Just log in to your account from another phone. This correspondence will be pulled from somewhere, respectively, somewhere there is a database in which this correspondence is actually located. If you want truly anonymous communication, create a secret chat. It uses encryption, in which the data is only on your phone and on the phone of your counterpart with whom you are corresponding. Here we can talk about some security, but not absolute. This is why many young guys, mistaken in the confidence in the anonymity of Telegram, work here without any cover, logging into personal phones and all that. The next chapter is about how scammers are caught.
Chapter 11. How are scammers caught and are they caught at all?
There are a huge number of variations on how to identify scammers, I will tell you about some of them now.
First. By checking the phone number. The most short-sighted scammers register accounts on their personal numbers. I will not reveal America by saying that you can find almost all the information about a person by phone number, and even if you hid your phone number in the Telegram settings, this does not mean anything.
Bots know your phone number by checking, and if you used it in real life, rest assured that it has already been leaked to some public databases. What will happen next? Masks, show and investigation, most likely.
Social engineering. Let's say you blocked some person who understands more or less. He writes to you from another account, since you logically blocked the first one, and you are conducting, it would seem, a chat with a new person. You try to close him, so to speak. Among all the correspondence with this person, they throw you some random link like a picture. In general, they can give a link to anything. There may be an IP logger under the link. Voila, the person gets your IP. If you are sitting under your network, that's the end.
The next thing is metadata. Any picture you took with your phone in any video you made contains so-called metadata. If you are interested in more details about what it is, watch the video from Overbuffer. He covered this topic perfectly, we will not drag it out here.
In general, having a photo taken with your device, you can be identified because the phone by default adds a lot of information in the description of the picture itself and knowing this information, your enemy can be your bob. Telegram is a really cool messenger, but for scammers it is like a playground, they will promise you millions, iPhones, an easy life, but in the end they will take your last money.
I myself have fallen for a scam many times, because I am a trivially trusting person, but the fact that I understand what I am talking about is 100%, but on the other hand, now you know how they work and how to protect yourself. Remember, your caution is your strength, do not let yourself be deceived.
If you liked the topic, put a like and write comments, whether you have fallen for a scam in Telegram. And of course, if you do not know who is Mamont in the scheme, then Mamont is most likely you. Take care of yourself, bye!
