Telegram Adds Third-party Verification To Combat Scams

Telegram is trying to ace down connected scams pinch a caller characteristic that lets charismatic third-party services delegate verification icons to users and chats, nan messaging activity announced connected Wednesday.

This is abstracted from nan verification process Telegram has for nationalist figures and organizations. Instead of displaying a bluish checkmark, accounts and chats verified by third-party services will personification a unsocial icon look to nan adjacent of their name. If you click connected nan level scheme of a third-party verified chat aliases account, you tin spot which activity verified it and why.

Telegram says only services pinch an charismatic bot verified by Telegram tin usage to spell a third-party verifier, helping to “prevent scams and reduce misinformation.” X has a akin characteristic that lets verified organizations delegate affiliation badges to related accounts.

The update comes conscionable months aft French authorities arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov complete claims he enabled forbidden activity connected nan platform. Since then, Telegram has updated its privateness policy, abnormal “misused” features, and changed its reside surrounding moderation. Durov said Telegram reached profitability past year, pinch afloat gross surpassing $1 billion.

Along pinch this update, Telegram is too rolling retired caller hunt filters that should make it easier to find definite chats, nan expertise to scan QR codes utilizing Telegram’s in-app camera connected iOS and Android, arsenic bully arsenic a measurement to move integer gifts into NFTs.