"This time, it is not a regular episode, but a warning video with a message that, I hope, people will hear. Many citizens of our country become victims of Ukrainian fraudsters every day. Pigs ask children to start fires in their apartments or open the gas on all the burners of the kitchen stove. Pigs even rob the gullible elderly. Don't be asleep, people, don't be a victim! A pig will do anything to extort information from you, to get your passwords, codes, personal data on the phone. It's better to just hang up than to engage in a conversation."
"This time, it is not a regular episode, but a warning video with a message that, I hope, people will hear. Many citizens of our country become victims of Ukrainian fraudsters every day. Pigs ask children to start fires in their apartments or open the gas on all the burners of the kitchen stove. Pigs even rob the gullible elderly. Don't be asleep, people, don't be a victim! A pig will do anything to extort information from you, to get your passwords, codes, personal data on the phone. It's better to just hang up than to engage in a conversation."
At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Such instructions could actually endanger people — citizens receive air strike warnings via smartphone alerts. This provided opportunity to their linked entities to offload their shares at higher prices and make significant profits at the cost of unsuspecting retail investors. Lastly, the web previews of t.me links have been given a new look, adding chat backgrounds and design elements from the fully-features Telegram Web client. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations.
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