Topic: Telegram forced invite (Read 515 times)
I don't think good or legit projects need to forced/invite to join project telegram group because in good project people going to joined own responsibility. Still i joined a lot of groups but i didn't joined in every group, auto bot or manually invited in those group. Spam message is another big disaster for telegram users i think.
Invitation without prior notice and done by bots? A BIG NO NO. To avoid those invitations to happen again, do this.
1st : Open your telegram account, go to settings
2nd : Go to Privacy and Security
3rd : Under Privacy, go to Groups then select "My Contacts" as Who can invite you to groups and channels
4th : Don't add any contacts. Just join your desired channel if you wish by getting their TG Profile link then Save.
Those invitations might be a part of bounty campaign or artificial growth of community to attract investors for selfish reasons. Leave those groups and report spam if you wish.
It's really work? I don't have add any contacts, but my telegram always auto joined some group, it's really annoying and most of them is just a spam group, I need to manual leave group one by one. 1st : Open your telegram account, go to settings
2nd : Go to Privacy and Security
3rd : Under Privacy, go to Groups then select "My Contacts" as Who can invite you to groups and channels
4th : Don't add any contacts. Just join your desired channel if you wish by getting their TG Profile link then Save.
Those invitations might be a part of bounty campaign or artificial growth of community to attract investors for selfish reasons. Leave those groups and report spam if you wish.
I don't believe most bounty project most of then used this process to advertise their scam project. Many telegrams I joined is just rubbish. The vision and mission is to sake their coin. Forcing people to join because of bounty reward is out of it. It should be voluntary action.
In many bounty campaigns there is a condition to invite your friends to telegrams in their community or channel, so nothing surprising. But in most cases, as you said, these are just fraudulent projects that are trying to profit from us.
In fact, you are right, there are a lot of fraudsters in Telegram, they change their names to other known names. One must be very vigilant in this network.
I thought I was the only one, it's actually very annoying and this is one of the things that made scared of Telegram then until a friend showed how to set my Telegram so that I don't get added to group without permission
In many bounty campaigns there is a condition to invite your friends to telegrams in their community or channel, so nothing surprising. But in most cases, as you said, these are just fraudulent projects that are trying to profit from us.
in my opinion it's normal and can be overcome only that all I hate from telegram is scammers who try to send chat to ask for help which is certain that is the remaining scam mode is the referral spreader link
that's strange. just take a break and leave all those funny groups and channels. and I think you should try to change your privacy settings as it seems you have set them to the public as anyone can add you into their groups, this sucks and happens a lot on telegram as more and more people are being careless every day. I guess we should make a site or thread to list all the scam sites and groups so everyone does not waste their time on these useless scams and groups.
It's unethical to add your telegram account to any telegram groups without permission of the owner. I have been added in many projects telegram group and to be honest I'm mad as some of them are scam projects. However, I did stay in some telegram groups if it's interesting and legit.
It is not usually done by the team but rather some greedy bounty hunters. They get rewards per the number of users they are able to invite into the group. Because of their selfish interest, they will add you even without prior notice.
For me so reasons are involved, am I a victim of this joining too many groups that I don't know of either by bot or someone will just add you without any notice,it really annoying at a time when you see yourself in too many useless telegram group.
I also suffer. What a bother. I think these are fraudulent projects
Do not pay attention to this, if you are not interested. There are many ways to engage your audience and spam is one of them.
You can just set your account to be prohibited by the invites and only your contacts can add you to the telegram. This is not new, and ever since many group are doing this so they can have more followers. Just leave the group and report it, but I believe the report system will not work on telegram that's not a forced invite, they forced you to join.
If that project do that kind of activity then stop believing that it's a good project. They are forcefully inviting members to gain attraction and make the new joiners and investors of that project to become confident that many are investing to them. This is very popular marketing trick today, they are increasing the number of their telegram channel and will start few conversations but notice on how many are actually going to reply to them, if its few then obviously most of the members are added forcefully if not, most are bots.
Some notorious mindless feeders had use bot in inviting me to various telegram group, causing my phone to near crash. I had to migrate the telegram to desktop on my PC and deleted it from my phone. From the desktop version, I put a setting in place, making it impossible for anyone to add me to any group except I join myself. Some of these persons who add participants do so at the request of some ICO and project to make their investors think they have a large community of followers.
You can join for all telegram channel and always looking for which one best ICOs project for investing, you can can join multi channel account for update more information but you have check by your self before investing in ICOs or altcoin.
I do not think anything good will use force to get the attention of the public or investors in the world of cryptocurrency. I mean there will be advertisement and other ways to make a project known to the world, but using force to expose it to the mass people is not acceptable and there might be something wrong in it. So the projects forcing investors or bounty hunters to get their attention maybe scammers. Stay away from them.
Have also experienced this issue before but when an not satisfy with because of disturbances, I decide to set my telegram . Moreover I don't think project with good concept will do this to you.
So I noticed I've been forcefully invited by bots into multiple telegram community which I never wanted to join.. and most of these communities are either ponzi schemes or from #icos which claim to be legit companies with one or two things to offer in the crypto space..
What can you say about this??
Can you really believe a good project with good concept would forcefully invite you into their community without any prior notice??
This is because your privacy is open to everyone I guess, because telegram bots will work as humans will work too, what I mean is that if no one can add you manually to a group, then I don't any bot will be able to add you to a group without seeking your permission, so I think the best thing for you is to go to your privacy and set it that no one should be able to add you to a group unless they have your contact or better still no one can add you to a group at all so that you can be save from a lot of spammers. What can you say about this??
Can you really believe a good project with good concept would forcefully invite you into their community without any prior notice??
I believe those who invite people into telegram groups are those who take part in telegram channel bounty and need people to join their groups so they can make money. I don't think a real ICO will force people to join their groups without their consent.
Typing users into a telegram channel is a very difficult task. I have a friend trying to make his telegram of the channel and tells me what to add people is very difficult. Jump to: