If you are offered something very tempting, and it is not on the Central Bank's blacklist, check the license. Outright scammers do not have any documents. But most of them forge them using document generators or simple Photoshop. Sometimes, to get to the landing page with a license, you will have to go through a whole sales funnel: from a channel or bot to a landing page.
You can check the owners of a Telegram channel for fraud online by the Russian license number here . And this link contains a check of licenses issued by neighbors - in the Republic of Belarus . If the license was issued somewhere in Cyprus, this is already a marker of scammers of all stripes.
Please note: You can identify fraud even by the appearance of the license. In the Russian Federation, the name of a legal entity must be written in Cyrillic. If you see something like "InterLohotron Company" - it's a scam.
Even if the fraudster shows a photo of the passport, check it linkedin data through the list of invalid passports of the Russian Federation . The search is conducted on a ready-made database. At the same time, remember that identity cards can not only be generated, but also simply stolen - for example, from the MFI database.
Important: Other guides on checking Telegram for fraud often suggest agreeing with the channel owner about payment. Allegedly, when entering card details, his name will appear. But this does not work. Arbitrageurs know very well that cards can be "left". And when transferring to a personal card, sometimes you do not need to enter the owner's name.
You can also use analytics services to check Telegram channels for cheating – TGStat , Telemetr , Popsters. There are also special bots for collecting statistics. But you need to know how to use them and draw conclusions from the collected information. And now we will tell you how – it is quite easy.
Method 1. Using analytics bots
These are Crosser_Bot and Combot. There is one "but" - the bot must have admin rights to collect statistics. So, this method is suitable for those who want to check their Telegram channel for spammer bots. After all, sometimes competitors or other "well-wishers" organize a bot attack. And sometimes someone just collects traffic from comments through spam.
Well, if you are not an administrator, or your counterparty is stubborn and does not want to show the status, there are other ways to check.
Method 2. Through statistics of subscriber growth
The easiest way to check someone else's Telegram channel for cheating is through the dynamics of subscriber growth. Let's go to the TGStat analytics service and take a random channel as an example. Such a growth curve is absolutely normal. The channel can be trusted.