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luastoned
on July 23, 2015
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Telegram bot that will get answers from real docto...
Proper Telegram Bots (
https://core.telegram.org/bots/
) don't have access to your phone number.
Maybe you added an account (that did not end in @xxxxbot) that was running on a custom backend.
Smirnoff
on July 23, 2015
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That could have been the case. A friend of mine kept adding lots of bots to the group until several of us started getting random spam messages the next day.
chrisan
on July 23, 2015
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How is @xxxbot enforced? I see in that article they have an official "BotFather" which doesnt seem to follow that rule.
luastoned
on July 23, 2015
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When you register a bot it has to end in ...bot, so any account that pretends to be one is easy to spot.
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Maybe you added an account (that did not end in @xxxxbot) that was running on a custom backend.