...I clicked “start” several times to make it work, but it didn’t.. So I reported it to the Telegram moderators. ..
It was a risky test, connecting your account to a bot, knowing for sure that this bot belongs to scammers. Now there are a huge number of different fraudulent schemes in Telegram bots, when interacting with which can even lose access to your account. So it's good that the bot wasn't working when interacting with it.