To be very slightly fair, if you have public settings on Telegram you can get randomly added to groups without signing up for them, I read an article about this, a journalist who got added to all sorts of illicit groups for credit card theft, etc, without asking. So it’s possible there’s people in there who have never even opened the chat because they don’t use Telegram much and don’t understand it.
Yeah, this is basically how it goes. Telegram is set by default to allow anybody to add you to chats. You can disable that, or set it so only Contacts can add you. Anyways, how it usually goes is some nefarious party, or a bot, will make their way into a legit chat room and then start adding all the members to their crypto chats, or whatever. Thankfully, I only ever was added to crypto scam chats at random before I fixed my privacy settings.
Oh sure me too. But a lot of people end up on Telegram because they’re looking for right wing content and aren’t very social media literate, so they don’t understand how to get out of it.
The fact that this exists doesn’t surprise me. People are horrible.
The fact that THIS MANY people were in it is disgusting.
To be very slightly fair, if you have public settings on Telegram you can get randomly added to groups without signing up for them, I read an article about this, a journalist who got added to all sorts of illicit groups for credit card theft, etc, without asking. So it’s possible there’s people in there who have never even opened the chat because they don’t use Telegram much and don’t understand it.
Yeah, this is basically how it goes. Telegram is set by default to allow anybody to add you to chats. You can disable that, or set it so only Contacts can add you. Anyways, how it usually goes is some nefarious party, or a bot, will make their way into a legit chat room and then start adding all the members to their crypto chats, or whatever. Thankfully, I only ever was added to crypto scam chats at random before I fixed my privacy settings.
Possibly but if I was auto added to one of these groups I would report and leave it. Not stay on it.
Oh sure me too. But a lot of people end up on Telegram because they’re looking for right wing content and aren’t very social media literate, so they don’t understand how to get out of it.
Makes me wanna start drinking again
Don’t leave the drink unattended