Read before writing multiple paragraphs of total crazy talk
This is ironic – you’re the one not to have read and understood the comment. Note the last line:
Tell them to move to Poland or Portugal where you can live comfortably with 1/10th of that money.
They were responding to the last bit:
Tell them to move to Poland or Portugal where you can live comfortably with 1/10th of that money.
Oh, I was just making a cheap joke. I used Telegram for a while for a specific group, and in that time I was inundated with catfishing bot messages. The joke was that that’s the purpose of Telegram and if you’re doing any else on it, you’re misusing it.
It was a very funny joke.
They’ve done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app.
This is a play on people’s naivety. It is an encrypted messaging app in as much as regular messages are encrypted between the client and the server. It’s just that this achieves nothing for the user in terms of privacy unless you can both completely trust the provider (you shouldn’t) and be confident that the back-end can’t be compromised (you can’t).
They do also have “secret chats” that are apparently E2E encrypted, but you’d be mad at this point to give them the benefit of the doubt without at least looking at independent security audits of the client.
Were you using it to catfish strangers via DM? If you weren’t, maybe they banned you for misuse of the platform.
This isn’t real, right? Please tell me it’s not. If you wrote this as satire, it’d be shot down by the editor as being way too on-the-nose.