Telegram has an obscene number of scammers who can DM you. Makes it almost unusable.

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I barely see them even though my TG handle is public. Maybe you are too famous 🤔

I just don't do DMs there unless I know the person from somewhere else.   their privacy settings are good.   be careful if you do make someone a "friend" on there as it may expose your phone number.

And no way of reporting. See one scammer who constantly changes his username to scam people.

Been saying this for years. genuinely don’t understand how the simplest feature “disable DMs from those I don’t know” isn’t a thing.