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It’s a good first step but not enough. I was scammed a while back on Telegram and wish I had been able to also see the persons real identity to recover my money. Location is not enough to go on.

Perhaps TG should publish an API to allow people to see any users government ID if they are scammed.

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This is like choosing to deal with cash and then complaining that you can't do a chargeback.

You didn't learn your lesson. The lesson wasn't that Telegram should require a government ID (then nobody would use it much less the scammer who scammed you). The lesson was that you need to consider the impact of being scammed when you're open to using a channel with no recourse.

How can telegram give you government issued ID if it doesn't collect it ?

I think they are being sarcastic.

Nope. I think they should probably ask for one at signup. Would also reduce their server load if people only used 1 account instead of making 2+

Yeah. Where I live people are already getting picked up for being in a WhatsApp group, for sharing something on WhatsApp or even being a WhatsApp group admin. Do you know how they are caught? Their phone number is kyc compliant so its a cake walk.

While I use telegram, I use it to only communicate essential stuff with family. Same for signal and other stuff.

Matrix is interesting as it does not require a phone number... To think a government ID card would be needed to talk to family....shudders

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