That's the right way to treat such unsolicited DMs. Ignore them. I tend to see anyone who sends me a DM as a potential scammer, except it's someone I know or expecting. There's even warning to that effect from every group/project on telegram that, "admin will never DM you". I don't take that lightly.

It's a commonplace thing on telegram. That's why I'm highly disappointed that Durov, Telegram's owner, isn't doing anything about that.

That's how I was on my own and I received a message from one person. Only knows where he got my contact but I'm very positive he got my contract from a group chat, he can't convince me otherwise because my telegram is an old account, I had lot of groups and channels that are full of spammers and inactive teams. I don't know the scammer intentions but if he is not after something, he wouldn't have message me trying to convince me if I'm interested in Temu sales and all that, told him to stop there that I wasn't interested in anything he has.

OP is right, don't entertain what you are not going to accept, the more you allow a long conversation from a stranger, the more they try to win you with some words, before you know it they will paste you a link that has some script that can destroy your phone and computer and then probably take something from you. How strange telegram can be, I have real contact of people I know in that telegram and I never for once see their dm, it's always the people I don't know.

Such things has been happening for while now and is more common in the telegram, because they think that they can find the users easily to fall in their victim’s and that’s why it’s that we should be very careful by clicking strange links that come to our telegram channels or any of our social media's.

Because one thing about those scammers is that if they see that they try this way way and it couldn’t work they change it into another way just to make sure their mission successful, so the best thing is what you did earlier when ever they send messages just ignore their messages; from there they know that this person have get their plan.

I’ve received so many messages like this asking when the bull run will start. Blocking them immediately feels like the right thing to do. Does anyone have tips on how to avoid getting these kinds of messages from different accounts?

How much does a premium Telegram account cost? I think it's very cheap, especially if you pay annually. Scammers on Telegram can certainly buy premium accounts, but the activities they engage in often get their accounts blocked, so it's unlikely they'll regularly spend money on premium accounts. However, as users who don't want to see unnecessary ads and receive spam messages from people outside your contact list or who aren't premium account holders, you can restrict anyone you don't want to follow.

Well for a year it's about $25, so I'm estimating for 3 months it would cost like $6 or something. I don't even remember how much I paid for it.

It's not like it does anything useful though, it's just a bells-and-whistles upgrade and apparently the scammers all want the blue check.

Every time I open Telegram I always get a new message from someone new sometimes I wonder where they got my contact information. But after I learned that these scammers were able to get my contact information from crypto groups because I join many crypto groups on Telegram. Every time I receive a message from someone new they always end up offering something tempting sometimes even sending a link.

But after receiving several messages like that, I decided that blocking every message from someone I don't know is better than responding. Blocking people like this is very tiring because there are messages from strangers every day. My advice is also not to join too many crypto groups on Telegram because that's where they get our contact information. Yes, through this forum I've also learned a lot about how to recognize scammers in crypto especially since scammers in crypto are unavoidable they will use various methods to find victims.

Telegram is a platform that allows anyone to register and exchange messages. That is why we often receive messages from unknown individuals on this social media platform, and most of them are scammers. Personally, I often receive such messages on one of my Telegram accounts, which actively engages in various discussion groups. I have also joined various Telegram groups as a requirement for participating in airdrops. So, I think that is how my contacts were accessed by them, so they saved it, then sent me messages which maybe was full of deception.

I advise everyone to simply ignore such messages and block them if necessary. Don't even try to interact with them, as you might be tempted and fall into a trap, especially if you are a beginner.

Also, you can report fraud to the official Telegram bot channel, whose the username is @notoscam. You can find it here : t.me - notoscam ( I just tried it, but it doesn't seem to be working right now, or is it just me? )

In addition, you can also block unknown users, and you can try looking at your Telegram settings.

Scammers take full advantage of privacy feature of telegram to launch attacks because its easy to remain undetected on telegram. If someone is using telegram then he need to remain extra careful while using that platform. Today everyone is aware of not to click on links and open files send by unknown users. Moreover we must not share any of our personal information on telegram because that can be handy for scammers. Just few simple precautionary measures and we are safe on telegram or any other social media platform.   

To be honest, people who fall for this set of persons are those looking for free money, they are want to get the money without doing absolutely nothing, forgetting that nothing good come easy. Once I see a message that is unfamiliar to me and i check the details of the sender, I might not be able to come to a conclusion that the said person is a scammer but then, as time goes on and we keep conversing, I’ll be able to get loopholes from our discussion.