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  Social engineering is the psychological manipulation of people into performing
  actions or divulging confidential information.
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# Tips on identifying scammers on Telegram

## Tips on identifying scammers on Telegram



### General rules for staying safe on Telegram.

* Don't ever send anyone your private key.
* Don't click on links send to you from unkown accounts.
* Don't let greed cloud your judgement, when it seems to good to be true, it is.





### How to identify fake accounts

Scammer go to great lenghts inpersonating people on Telegram, they will have the same logo and it will even look as if they have the same username.

When their image constantly changes.



Compare a real account with a fake account



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