Dangerous, I almost got scammed
How it happend?
Today, I received a free VPS from a member on Noodseek forum. The world is so small that we saw each other on telegram too. After a small talk, wo confirm each other is right person on forum. Then, I receive a messasge that seems to be sent by an official account.
Just at moment I am start input my account name and mobile phone number, I am wondering why I will got this as I seldomly sent private message let alone spam message. And this is not long after I chat with him. So I share him with this thing. He found something strange: Telegram official would not send message in Chinese. After my brief investigation, I realised that he is right, the whole thing is a deception.
What makes me sure this is a scam?
- First of all, like my friend saying, Telegram official would not send message in Chinese.
- Secondly, the official account of Telegram has a unique symbol.
This is official account.
The below two are fake
- At last, I checked its history avatar. I am confidently sure that this account is a cheater.
What did I do at last?
There is nothing but reporting spam I can do for this god damn faker.
What did learn from this thing?
I can not be too careful on social media. Better safe than sorry.