Telegram OTP scams targeting users; These 3 were caught stealing money
When it comes to defrauding people, OTP scams have been one of the classic techniques used by scammers for duping innocent internet users into providing access to their social media or messaging app accounts. More often than not, scammers have directed these OTP scams at WhatsApp users. But now it looks like things are changing as a new report indicates that scammers have now started targeting Telegram users with OTP scams as well. The reason why Telegram OTP scams are rising because of the massive surge in number of users that Telegram has seen recently onboarded, especially after the WhatsApp privacy controversy that made many people migrate to the former. For cybercriminals,