This 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 shou

This 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.