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RE: Scam Alert: Scammers Are Impersonating Dobartim, Thejohalfiles and other top ranking Steemians on discord. Verify who you chat with before getting committed
Wow
I have to resteem this to my friends and get to read this again when I return from church.
I remember how I was scammed by someone on Telegram because he changed his name to someone I knew and that was how I lost 20 SBD.
I am glad this was discovered on time before someone loses something worthwhile....
Thanks for sharing and saving them.
I would like to understand how this could happen on Telegram.. Any idea?
If nobody has registered the name before, even though it's a steem name I guess?
It's very easy to impersonate on telegram, In fact that's where most of the scammers lies. I've been approached more than once but I find it easy in recognizing them.
A username can also be changed on telegram. A scammer can decide to use your username and DP just to scam another fellow.
But, what people don't know is Telegram has a code for each user. This can't be changed, if you check the user profile, you will notice a code beneath the username. What I do is compare these codes with the real owner (that's if I have his/her telegram username) before proceeding to chat.
This happens in the steem exchange channel on telegram but a solution has been put in place - there is bot that monitors when a user immediately change his username to another account name - the bot gives detailed information also there's pinned messages having scam warnings(don't do dm deals, all steemit.com exchange deals are done with an escrow account, scammer uses admin name).
Yes, that's true. The bot solves the scam issue to an extent. But, people are now getting wiser. They open several telegram accounts, one will be on the group they met you, it won't be changed. The other ones will be used for scamming.
I was approached yesterday too. But, those scammers can never get me. 😀
From what Jules have mentioned, I'll take a look at how this can happen on telegram and possibly how to verify users.
Sorry about that. I remember your story back then. I'm working on how to solve the telegram fraud issue too.