Pavel Durov had earlier in the year Twitted that investors should rely on the official Telegram channel for any information regarding the company’s crowdsale.<\/strong> He added that information from other sourced not found on the official Telegram channel is most likely scam.<\/p>\nDays after the private sale, some fraudulent spam emails were sent to many in the crypto community advertising the Telegram ICO. Investors who are knowledgeable about the ICO are already aware that Telegram has only announced private sale and are not even admitting all classes of investors.<\/p>\n
It is not surprising that the Telegram ICO is a target of so much scam. Scammers are known to want to leverage popular crowdsales taking advantage of the buzz around them, however, with due diligence, investors can avoid loss. For instance, all the scam sites and Twitter accounts were registered in January or February. Companies usually register their websites months before their ICOs are announced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since the advent of initial coin offering, one of the challenges the crypto space has faced is scams. Scammers hover around popular ICOs and the Telegram token sale is as popular as they come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,74],"tags":[4656,4843,4852],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}