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I only use official apps and so my contact to whom I recommended Telegram few years ago.
But the bad news is that Telegram has recently removed the sms option and announced that all logins will only be through the app
That's okay because of the cost the spam is causing them, but they could have at least allowed an email option
I believe the requirement for SMS verification is that it's official yeah, especially the official releases for Android / iOS from their website or their respective app stores... SMS verification was ditched for third-party clients, because spammers would abuse it a lot. At least they didn't slam the doors shut on third-party clients altogether I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I don't have it because alternative FOSS clients are better.
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You can still get SMS from their official client, I think.
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Try your best to recover the account with the phone number that remains in your possession. Other than that, be cognizant of where you (as in you, behind the screen) allow your credentials to be used. If I were you, my default stance would be "reject everyone and everything". If someone wants something from you, confirm whether they are authorized to get it, and even that they are who they claim to be. I've had long-time friends on Facebook years ago, whose accounts got compromised and were then used to try to trick me in turn. So yeah, not even a friend can really be trusted.. or at least, not their accounts. Face-to-face is all that remains, as well as your memories of how they (as in them, the human beings) tend to behave.
Once it's all cleaned back up, consider it a life lesson in both technical and personal security, the latter of which we tend to call "social engineering".
I sent them an email with all the details, but I don't think they'll ever reply.
Preventing users from logging in through a form on a foreign website has always been the defacto for a reason. But Telegram not only allowed that. It also doesn't provide any way for the user to recover their account if they don't have access to another open session.
They should have left the sms or the call option available
Thank you, that's really nice of you to help.
Unfortunately the account is not mine, and I can't talk on behalf of its owner.
I sent them an email but I doubt they'll even read it
I was trying to help the contact who sent me the message and apparently he was logged out of his account and we couldn't log him in back because Telegram apparently ditched the sms code verification option and kept sending the code to the unknown new device app.
Even deleting the account was impossible due to not being able to choose the sms option.
And my contact kept receiving calls even from people who didn't call him in ages according to him, asking him why he sent them that message. And he was anxious about that and afraid that it may sent inappropriate stuff to important people
Why won't they have a bot that always tries to login to your account?
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This is the price you have to pay for being on the internet. You have to be cautious with everything, even with people that say are close to you.
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But after a few days it did send SMS versification message.
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For me it was really annoying because it insisted it's sending it to some other clients that using the phone number _that DON'T exist.._
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Between emails and public discourse on e.g. Twitter (never will I call it X, real-life Tony Stark my dingus), I would say that emails are good at proving that something was said. But they are private (unless it's mailing lists), and people's inboxes can get quite extreme in terms of clutter. Meanwhile on Twitter, you'd be lighting a bit of a fire under people's butts due to the public nature of it all. Not good for proof of transmission and receipt, and not everything can be discussed in public. But presented with both those options, see what works best for you. You're right, Telegram's support in general is quite abhorrent.
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Na emails are forgotten, even the critical ones.
They may help, and I think there is some process to bypass MFA login after 3-4 weeks, long ago, I changed admin rights from myself to another person for a TG group like that (after 3 weeks or so as I also forgot the code that I had set) and left that group thereafter.
Thank you.
Agreed, the person who owns it has to perform this.
Thank you.
Pls try as below :
Pls use the above link log the issue with them & to expedite it - tag them on social media stating that you are aggrieved.
Also, use the request details too and tag them publicly.
Out of public shame, they should make it quick.
I use this approach to get an immediate attention to my issues at times with different organizations, and it has worked until now.
Thank you.
They have the worst support since 2014
I don't even know where to contact them. The support through the app never worked and their email addresses are like a black hole.
and countless other links will pop up in no time, blocking sites isn't a solution at all, you can create countless redirectors
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I've just checked and another account of someone else here who has the same contact received the same message. But this time with a different domain name 4f4em dot the same tld which is vip since whoever reads this far shouldn't be fooled now
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