Scammers are cashing in on Telegram’s upcoming ICO

The news of Telegram Open Network (TON), the Telegram ICO project starts to make waves around the world. Some scammers have set up sites that impersonate the official page of Telegram and managed to steal millions of dollars from unsuspecting investors.

A lot of interest and great curiosity and unprecedented after the rumors about the next approaching Telegram ICO. It turns out that quite a few scammers who want to take advantage of this opportunity and make money at the expense of investors - except for investors and users of cryptocurrencies.

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The chat app Telegram’s upcoming ICO in process of the early sale (scheduled to launch until March) of token worth half a billion dollars. The company's goal is to raise a large amount of money in a discrete and relatively fast manner.

In the first stage, only the heavy whales are recruited, each of the investors buys huge amounts of millions of dollars in return for a discount in the price of the company's TON.

The company is expected to raise $ 1.2 billion to $ 2 billion. Gios will eventually make ICO the most profitable company of all time.

Although the sale to the private market has not yet started, many scammers are trying to take advantage of this opportunity to make big and fast money. There are reports of many websites that impersonate the Telegram official website and of course, they offered to anyone who wants to buy the most desired currency now.

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For example the ancient site Gramtoken.io copy the entire sections of the Telegram White Paper along with all official data and information from the original site so that it is not perceived as untrustworthy or a suspicious site.

Gramtoken.io was a success, the scammers managed to raise about $ 5 million before they were caught and the site was blocked. Other scammers who have realized the opportunity to take advantage of the inability of many people to identify malicious sites - Many other sites began to flood the Internet, posing as official Telegram sites, for example, grampreico.com, Ton-gram.io These malicious sites managed to raise tens of thousands of dollars until they were caught and closed.

WARNING - another malicious site called tgram.cc is still active.
In addition, there are many Facebook pages,
which also offer the desired currency.

Pavel Durov the Telegram CEO and VKontakte founder - Twitter Twitter - An official response that seeks to reports about scammers trying to sell "Grams". You can report via this Antiscam