Oh, I see. My take on this is that whether the offer from the scammer is genuine or not, people should generally desist from selling their usernames on Telegram. It might actually be a smooth transaction between the buyer and the seller, but others who know nothing about this exchange might become victims by trusting a total stranger, thinking it's someone they used to know. When these strangers come to our DMs with this kind of offer, the response should be "no, I don't want to sell my identity" and not just "oh! This dude wants to scam me." Even if the offer is genuine, don't sell. This way, we would save lots of people from becoming victims. Unfortunately, some persons would be too greedy to even think about the negative consequences of such transactions.
There's nothing wrong in selling telegram username if it can fetch you some money. The thing is, if you have a unique username and you wish to sell, do not listen to PMs from a random stranger on telegram. Go to fragment and put it up for sale. Anyone that contacts you directly on telegram is a scammer and wants to trick you into clicking or visiting a phishing website where your wallet will be drained.
How confident are you that the scammer will pay you?
Or perhaps this offer could lead you into a scam by sending the scammer a phishing link.
We must exercise caution when dealing with people on Telegram, it's a haven for scammers that should be avoided.
Regardless, @OP, thank you for sharing this so that forum users are aware of such tricks. There may be a greedy forum member who will fall victim to this bait.
Honestly this kind of scam attempt is becoming so alarming and it is a must pity for the newbies that is those newly in to using telegram app and the rest of them especially with the amount to be offered lol majority will fall for it and sees as na opportunity of making a huge amount of money without knowing it is too real to true, there is need for everyone to carry this consciousness of security at all time, this message can as well be pass to our love ones, families and friends that are not in this forum everyone needs to be guided because when we fall for this the next person can be affected with whatever the scammer might plan to do with the username.