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It’s a good first step but not enough. I was scammed a while back on Telegram and wish I had been able to also see the persons real identity to recover my money
by gotem 6y ago
It’s a good first step but not enough. I was scammed a while back on Telegram and wish I had been able to also see the persons real identity to recover my money. Location is not enough to go on.
Perhaps TG should publish an API to allow people to see any users government ID if they are scammed.
- 2Gkashmiri 6y agoHow can telegram give you government issued ID if it doesn't collect it ?
- Hnrobert42 6y agoI think they are being sarcastic.
- gotem 6y agoNope. I think they should probably ask for one at signup. Would also reduce their server load if people only used 1 account instead of making 2+
- 2Gkashmiri 6y agoYeah. Where I live people are already getting picked up for being in a WhatsApp group, for sharing something on WhatsApp or even being a WhatsApp group admin. Do you know how they are caught? Their phone number is kyc compliant so its a cake walk. While I use telegram, I use it to only communicate essential stuff with family. Same for signal and other stuff. Matrix is interesting as it does not require a phone number... To think a government ID card would be needed to talk to family....shudders
- hombre_fatal 6y agoThis is like choosing to deal with cash and then complaining that you can't do a chargeback. You didn't learn your lesson. The lesson wasn't that Telegram should require a government ID (then nobody would use it much less the scammer who scammed you). The lesson was that you need to consider the impact of being scammed when you're open to using a channel with no recourse.