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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by hilux on Saturday August 24, 2024 @07:09PM (#41342611)
> It only takes a 30 second google before you find telegram rooms offering all kinds of illegal stuff.

For fun, I tried that and was unsuccessful, at least in the allotted time.

Google turned up many third-party references to illegal activity on Telegram, but that's not the same thing.

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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by edm0nd on Saturday August 24, 2024 @09:14PM (#41343460)
You have to use the Search built into Telegram and you can find illegal stuffs within seconds.

Search for any of these phrases and it will return tons of channels to join:

- Combo lists - Check fraud - Redline Stealer - Bank logs

There are tens of thousands of channels on Telegram w illegal content and material.

I really do hope they dont shut it down bc it's an extremely valuable asset in terms of intelligence and monitoring criminals haha

Source: I work in CTI and actively monitor and scan thousands of Telegram channels.

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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by hilux on Saturday August 24, 2024 @11:18PM (#41344077)
I'm not sure whether to "thank" you for what sounds like my exciting new hobby!
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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by edm0nd on Saturday August 24, 2024 @11:31PM (#41344128)
It's a lot of fun and a super neat project! I totally nerd out on it.

I used python and the Telethon and Pyrogram frameworks to help scrape and monitor em.

A paid Telegram account can be in 1k channels/groups. A free Telegram account can be in 500 channels/groups.

Good luck and happy programming!

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