hampus on Nostr: I made a Telegram bot that auto-replies to new or infrequent users. Scammers ...

I made a Telegram bot that auto-replies to new or infrequent users.

Scammers impersonating devs and DMing users are very common in wallet chat groups. My hope is that this will prevent people from getting scammed.

The bot written in Deno and you can easily deploy it on Deno Deploy (or self-host on your own server).
https://github.com/hsjoberg/telegram-autoreplier-bot

Code is released under public domain.
The bot is currently live in our Blixt Wallet chat group.

Example scenario on how the bot works:
```
User: I need help please
Bot: Hi there user. Beware of scammers
<Nasty scammer impersonating a dev DMs the user>
User: Oh nice, thanks for the heads-up, kind bot.
```

We’ve seen that a welcome message isn't sufficient protection as people just don't read these. Even you make it crystal clear about scammers.

My rationale here for the bot is that they will notice if the bot replies directly to the user's message so they get pinged about it.

Cheers guys.