Quote from: Amphenomenon on April 05, 2025, 03:40:24 PM

Indeed will always be innovative, after all that's how they make their money. We just have to pay and hope not to ever be among the victims or those pretty close to us but this doesn't disrupt the fact that we need to be cautious and try to stay pre-informed about them.

Anyone can fall into a trap either those who don't understand or even those who are very familiar with the telegram application.
To be honest in the past I have also fallen into a scammer trap and lost around 0.125 ETH and that was before I really knew how they used the method.
Became an Admin on a certain coin group that was a representative of each Regional and then invited me to enter into other investments in a joint venture, but I ended up being deceived, and I did it unconsciously at that time.

Quote from: NotATether on April 06, 2025, 12:09:12 AM

I wonder if it is possible to create a bot or at least a Telegram agent that can read your messages and then automatically block the contacts if they send a message that matches scam or phishing heuristics. For example, weird link, or too many "invest" words, bad English grammar, etc.

Obviously a white-list would be required to prevent false positives.

Maybe you can try it out by doing some research first.
create a kind of Bot that is able to automatically block when there is an account that is indicated by a scammer can be realized.

But to use the Telegram application as usual it may not be possible, because the bot is not allowed to read private messages (direct messages) because it would violate privacy,
while Privacy is the core principle of Telegram.

To be able to have full access, you can use Userbot by utilizing the Telegram API of a Regular account.
By using a userbot (like through Telethon or Pyrogram), you act like a regular user, so you can: Read all incoming DMs, Block spammers, Forward/report suspicious messages.