[k_vi]

Happened to us, we built a bot[1] to buy and sell bitcoins privately on Telegram. Someone messaged me saying that they would get a 'SCAM' label on our bot if we didn't pay them the ransom. We didn't comply and within a few days we got the label(guess they managed to get a lot of accounts on our bot to report scam). Their support team was unresponsive and it took around 3 weeks to get it resolved.

Needless to say, our users lost trust and we couldn't risk this happening again.

We still run the service(from request of a few existing users) but not actively promoting it.

[1] https://t.me/megadealsbot

[berns]

Read the Telegram faq, bots are publicly available, so they are subject to take down requests. Chats and group chats are not.

https://telegram.org/faq#q-there-39s-illegal-content-on-tele...

[k_vi]

Chats and group chats can also get the same SCAM label.