I guess the downvotes happened because the message just gives an outsider's view - the reason for that spam is easy, just like with Email spam: it's cheap and w

I guess the downvotes happened because the message just gives an outsider's view - the reason for that spam is easy, just like with Email spam: it's cheap and works - Telegram is easyier to integrate than their competitors. Thats the downside of its developers friendliness (APIs and open source Clients), feature richness and finally their sizable userbase. It's actually a cat & mouse game between spam creators and the Telegram developers implementing countermeasures (on the proprietary backend) - you could see the evolution in spambot behaviour over time just like what happened with email: from simple text + links to misspellings, then screenshotted text ads and now to "plz dm me" comments outside of Telegram or join group xyz (i.e. joins/chats initiated by victims to circumvent reporting cold call chat invites) Edit: better wording, typos fixed. Also: Telegram is not exactly new with an age of 8 or 9 years.