Admin Verification
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Being able to verify you are talking to a legitimate Admin of a chat as a community member is important. Telegram over the years has been the prime target for impersonators scamming users into giving out personal information as well as even sending funds or giving out passwords. Often scammers will act as "support" or swap out letters of a persons name to make their profile appear to be that of an admin. They will then contact chat participants direct and offer their help, when infact they are trying to scam!
To combat such cases, modr8 offers "Admin Verification" functionality, where anyone can forward a message they have received from a user to your bot to confirm whether they are a legitimate admin or not.
Select any message received by any user
Select forward the message on
Type your bots username into the search
Your bot will respond to the message to notify whether the user is a known admin or not.
Example - A verified Admin
Example - A verified Owner
Example - A fake Admin
We often get asked what is the best method of letting communities know this option is available to them. Instead of trying to chase down all of these users and banning them, educating your community to verify is the best course of action. This can be done by:
Inform users in the welcome message that they can forward a message to verify admins
Set up a scheduled announcement that informs users the steps they can take every 12 hours
Create a command in the bot which can be used by users/community managers to list the steps they can take
