I Infiltrated the Largest Telegram Scam Team

[00:02] Telegram and spent more than 2 weeks there. [music] This is a chat with over 12,000 people who send dozens of reports every day about stolen Telegram NFT gifts. Some Team members

[00:14] . Some receive threats from their victims and leaks of personal information about loved ones. The team has its own parsers, its own promotions department, which brings them new scammers via TikToks, its own bots for payouts,

[00:27] contests, and even its own NFT market with several hundred thousand users, verification stamp from Roskomnadzor. More than 10,000 scammers scam random Telegram users out of hundreds of thousands of rubles daily. How come the

[00:41] total damage from this scheme already amounts to more than $1 million? Is it seven out of ten people fall for the scheme? Who are these people who write to you every day on Telegram, ? How do they manage to brainwash you and even in some

[00:54] cases gain access to your bank account and withdraw all your money from there. Well, I became a part of one of the largest CM Teams in Telegram at the moment. I've uncovered all the intricacies and schemes of scammers, and have personally

[01:06] written down more than a hundred people as a scammer. Do not think for statistical and informational purposes. I spoke with one of the main admins and a top employee of the group. So I infiltrated the biggest Telegram scam at the moment

[01:18] in 2025. Enjoy watching.

[01:36] users within Telegram has been available since 2024. If you remember, there was a similar mechanism in VK. The gifts themselves appear in your profile, you can hide them or add them to your status. Basically, just some cute souvenir pictures. At

[01:49] first they weren't in NFT form, but right on New Year's Eve, Pasha Durov rolled out an update. Starting January 1, 2025, gift-giving pioneers could and other cute pictures into real-world tokenized assets. The price of all

[02:02] these gifts is formed in the same way as on any NFT market. The rarer the pattern, design, or other unique features of a token, the higher its value. And yes, the prices for gifts sometimes reach enormous levels. The same Pepe frogs, by the way,

[02:14] dollars. But, as you can imagine, wealthy collectors, but also those who simply decided to reminisce about PVC and buy themselves a few similar gifts for Telegram. Who knew that one

[02:27] day, for a few dozen rubles, you could upgrade them to the status of a collectible NFT gift? Thousands of people who know nothing about NFTs or images worth tens, sometimes hundreds, sometimes thousands of

[02:40] large third-party marketplaces like Portals or Tonel are popping up at the same time, allowing you to safely sell gifts, but not everyone has the knowledge or Consequently, a vacuum appears in the market , which scammers rush to fill

[02:54] . Fraudsters begin writing to gift recipients, hoping to find the disinterested. And then they take the NFT from them based on trust, promising to send money in return or lead them to a guarantor, who is also a scammer. In general, a

[03:07] later, in the middle of this year, Telegram did launch its own marketplace where gifts could be sold for Stars, Telegram's native currency, but that didn't improve the situation much. And although

[03:23] into the theft of Telegram NFT gifts . Yes, there was a case involving a sixteen-year-old girl whose account containing NFT gifts worth 23 million rubles was stolen. Moreover, they stole it offline, and the girl received the gifts, according to rumors, from a

[03:36] major NfT holder in exchange for her 18+ photos. Just last month I received this message: "How many? 20 people." What do you think of this? Hello. Are you exchanging your peach for something or not? To be honest , I don’t even know how to react to this

[03:48] . My editor has the same story. My friends with NFT gifts have the same thing the groups that created their own bot in the form of an diagram of the camera recording: "NFT holders are offering a deal and are even

[04:01] willing to pay first." True, they dump it with their own mimcoins, which they call ton or USDT. The user sees a familiar name, realizes that he has been deceived. As we see in reality, this scam of gifts worth

[04:14] several tens of dollars turned out to be only the beginning of a huge industry worth gathering of scammers among schoolchildren, it all turned into a huge network of scammer communities with thousands of like-minded people. But in this entire scamming sphere, I was

[04:27] group with over 10,000 participants in fake markets with Roskomnadzor verification, automated bots, and even their own scam. Well, it's time to infiltrate the largest scam team in Telegram at the moment.

[04:41] But overall, a huge number of Telegram users don't realize the We naturally condemn the cameras, but all of this concerns legal ways of earning money. Essentially, Telegram is divided into two types of users. Those who don't

[04:54] brings money to someone and to those who earn money from it. Moreover, huge amounts of money are made where many people don’t really look. You access a Telegram bot with a TikTok, and you're asked to subscribe to the channel to use it. This

[05:08] Telegram businessmen is called motivated traffic. Essentially, admins, when purchasing such traffic, pay for the activity of subscribers from bots or other services in order to maintain reach within their resource. In

[05:20] 2024, only one service for attracting incentivized traffic, Flyer, reported paying out more than $1 million through such a bot . By the way, a video experiment to flood an empty channel with audiences. Flyer is a service that

[05:33] traffic, used by many of the Telegram market's giants. For example, not Moscow channels. The service allows you to purchase traffic for your Telegram channel at an subscriber. You need to use this kind of traffic carefully and wisely, otherwise you'll end up with a

[05:48] burden on an audience that isn't interested in your content. But another resource will help you figure this out. The EchoLegi Telegram channel is a community where you Telegram, as well as regular exclusive interviews with leading figures in the

[06:01] creating and promoting Telegram bots, analysis of earnings stories from incentivized traffic, and simply interesting case studies and topics. Follow the read Echo of the Cart. And now we move on to those guys who are used to earning money

[06:15] guys who are used to earning money dishonestly. biggest scam thread in Telegram. Literally anyone can join the community itself

[06:27] dedicated to this topic, and each one contains a referral link Yes, traffickers are the very same promotional division of the Scam community workers to the team. For each new user, trappers receive 30 cents. So

[06:41] I apply to join, and literally within an hour I'm launched into this hellish lair of scammers. Let's start with the thread that contains a scam scheme If we visit the official public page of this market, we will see that it is being run as

[06:54] project. Several hundred thousand subscribers, trading volume reports, and subscribers, trading volume reports, and world of gifts and even celebrity giveaways. And next to the name, there's that

[07:06] same verification from Roskomnadzor, done on drops. How does work proceed according to this scheme? The worker uses parsers to find a victim, then contacts them and sends her a link to that very

[07:18] conduct the transaction there. Well, of course, it's very convenient. Pavlik is supposedly large and internet. The bot itself even allows withdrawals to a card, which is the scenario, the victim must bite, fall for verification, and make an offer to sell

[07:33] to the offer itself using a separate command in the bot and receives a fake payment confirmation. After dropping it on the victim, he waits for her to transfer the gift to . One of the nuances: the bot is really well thought out. In addition to the main

[07:47] hidden one. The worker enters the name of the scheme using slash, and a create a number of successful transactions for themselves, as well as receive that very fake payment confirmation for the victim. What else besides this manual can be

[08:00] has a chat with navigation through positions and workflows within the project. supports, four mentors, a There are also three bots: a bot for worker payouts, a bot for trafficker payouts, and a bot for signing up

[08:14] for mentoring. We managed to establish contact with one of the admins. Let's start with this is not the actual owner of the project, but rather someone acting in his stead. The real beneficiary is very secretive. He also acts as a guarantor in particularly

[08:26] when other support staff are heavily loaded. Incidentally, the second in line are technical support staff, the support staff of the fake market, to gifts during the scam. I've already talked about traffickers and workers. But who are the

[08:39] experienced workers who now work a little less and take 10% of their students' transactions. By the way, the workers themselves receive 60% of the value of the something like this. A separate thread with work manuals, channel news, a

[08:54] parsers, a collection of profits and payouts, a thread for traffickers, account design guides gift resellers. Apparently, it's for more intense work, for the most experienced quite sophisticated. Well, speaking about the inexperienced, in general, sometimes it’s

[09:10] really naive guys who try to use a camera. According to our informant, also manages to trick even the most oblivious victims into paying additional fees. Anyone who's been watching my the oldest scam mechanic in the crypto community. And not only that. The

[09:23] he wants to return the gift. The support team doesn't seem to mind, but they're asking for the commission for the gift transfer to be sent back. And, judging by the correspondence, the workers users. The support team acknowledges the fraud committed by the

[09:36] the victim is required to pay the P2P merchant's fee. As you can see, only when it becomes clear the user doesn't have any tones does they ask to transfer the funds to a card. However, some victims not only manage to transfer the commission, but

[09:50] also provide access to their personal banking accounts. lлоl. Yes, how exactly do they do it and what needs to be said to the victim so that she takes such actions. The second interesting point is the verification of the RK. As I learned from the interview, they're

[10:04] looking for droppers with a camera to verify their channel through Gosuslugi. Well, where do they are found in job search chats and offered 20 dashes of 30,000 rubles. This is at But what happens to them afterwards is more interesting.

[10:18] The man verified it and then they called and said they needed to show up at such and such a place to give testimony or something like that. The person who wrote it . Naturally, we told him that everything was fine, don’t worry, everything was

[10:32] . Yes, of course, after all these easily turns into at least a call from the police. In general, I talked about the fate of my previous video, so please follow the tips.

[10:47] to Worker, the maximum profit from one transaction was 1,00,000 rubles. The processing took place through that same marketplace, but another major case involved gifts worth a large, undisclosed

[11:01] There was a case like this: this girl, she studies, it turns out, at school and she has a classmate. This classmate decided to make a deal with her guarantor bot there, so let's use it , and I'll pay you the money

[11:14] correspondence, I don’t know how he played it all out, so that it wasn’t like he was somehow he played it all out. And, long story short, she agreed. There were very good discounts, bags, watches and the like. Helmet. It turns out she gave a

[11:29] gift. There, when it turns out that the gift is being transferred, it writes that your support. That is, this classmate apparently told her that strange, this shouldn’t happen at all. And then an application for payment of gifts was received

[11:44] In general, having heard all this, I decided to move on to practice. Please do not think for informational and statistical purposes. Well, how could it be otherwise? everything in practice. According to the admin himself, seven out of ten victims are lured to scams through their miraculously

[11:58] . So I decided to go through all the manuals, try on a skinner and check out these wonderful statistics. Let's go. Just let me lie down on the floor again. I think you liked it. No?

[12:10] camera's instructions look like this: buy premium, create a public page with a long with its reviews, a link to a chat for finding scammers, and brief information about works with. Get more reactions for this long post, add a compelling

[12:25] Moreover, judging by the other participants in the scammers' chat, if you see a message from a similar profile in LлS, feel free to block it. As you saw on the screen, I did everything successfully. Now I'm Nastenka Kantli in Thailand and I earn money by

[12:38] question is: what should the victim write? According to the camera manual, one is required to communicate disturbing them, try to establish contact with a simple message asking whether gifts are for sale, gifts are sold, the scammer redirects the user to the same verified market and

[12:53] argument for choosing this platform is as verification of the advertising campaign. Well, there can be no talk of any bench, really. They open marketplace on Telegram, using open parsers from gift recipients, as well as using the

[13:07] parsers from gift recipients, as well as using the as it turned out, I was completely deceived with the statistics. There can be no talk of any seven out of ten ongoing victims . On the first day I wrote to forty

[13:20] gift recipients. The result is that almost everyone threw me into the blog. a little less often whose gifts were in the transfer block. But as a result, it was . The next day was already a little more cheerful. Firstly, I started

[13:33] stories in profiles and only then revealed that I work in the gift industry and wanted to buy gifts. They threw me into the blacklist a little less often, but again there was no result, until immediately demanded payment in rubles. I

[13:46] crypto. The guy was still pointing at rubles, and I asked for a couple of minutes to found it and sent a link to the scammer's site. The guy didn't suspect anything receive a payment confirmation message . But then he opened a

[14:01] bear gift from a scammed user with a signature about the platform's dishonesty. After that , he naturally disappeared. By the way, such reviews are often left in the community. Yes, they are cleaned, but that's not what's interesting. In the 5

[14:13] days I've been working with this peacock, he and the attached bot have been hit with the SK badge twice. How does the team fix this issue? changes verification book to it, creates a new bot and recruits users into it. My scammer's

[14:26] users from third-party parsers from the internal Telegram market from the parser of the scam team itself. The result, in principle, was the same. I've written to over 140 users and only once was I able to almost get a guy

[14:39] get to the point of creating an offer and abandoned it almost immediately after I sent her the time I received only two spam blocks from Telegram, and they were removed in just a few hours. And after that, I decided to talk not with the admin, but with one

[14:52] of the workers leading in stolen goods, to ask for advice and learn life hacks for workers scam in the chat itself every day for more than a hundred thousand rubles. It turns out that the main secrets of a successful scammer are just patience

[15:05] call it that. I have three accounts. I remove two spam blocks per day from each account. I just take quantity. There are no secrets. Well, I can roughly unsubscribe to 150 people per day from one account

[15:20] . 150-2. In general, spam blocking depends on how quickly someone blocks you. Honestly, he won't give up. Well, sometimes they throw you right away, and sometimes, if they unsubscribe in the morning, it turns out to be more than 250, you

[15:34] get 150 people on average [music] per account. And the account, accordingly, has per account. And the account, accordingly, has 450-500 people. How much real profit do you get from 500 people ? Well, from these 500 people,

[15:46] Yes, at the start, the statistics on the success of the scam relative to the number of workers too many scammers. At first glance, Trkn's verification might have inspired confidence, but after Trkn's verification might have inspired confidence, but after

[16:00] work of workers can be compared with the success of telephone scammers. In 2021, 7-9 people out of 100 responded to calls. This year, Sberbank's deputy chairman reported that, out of every 100 people, but in any case, they successfully make money from the cameras,

[16:15] outlays, mostly time. It is obvious that workers always come out on top in any case yet operate at relatively zero cost. But the statistics with 500 people still sounds convincing to scammers. For me, of course, this is

[16:30] with the workers, Tim's admins came up with an even more interesting scheme, which The new manual looks like this. You don't even ask the victim to discard the gift anywhere, but you want to check whether it was purchased with the ref stars. What's the point? At the beginning of

[16:44] . Elder traders bought stars through bots, used to their first account, and then returned both the money for the gift and the stars learned of the presence of such stars on the market, it tracked them down and began confiscating gifts from

[16:59] to use this news. They ask the victim to download Naigra, a completely legal Telegram client, to a third-party app. This is necessary to obtain special verify whether gifts purchased for users were legally purchased. This is how the legend of scammers goes. In

[17:12] to obtain a user's authorization token through the client settings. The scammer asks you special bot, which will verify the legitimacy of the victim's gifts. Once the token reaches the bot, the algorithm immediately logs into the victim's account and transfers all

[17:25] team's admin, in the first few days they managed to scam users out of even higher amounts than they had been able to under the old scheme. But the good news here is that you won't fall for it anymore. Yes, to conclusions.

[17:38] But I don’t want to draw any conclusions today. Everything is clear anyway. Bye. [music]

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