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Bipe and Telegram against scams
Telegram has good tools to check who is writing to you. But a normal chat is stored on its server, without end-to-end encryption. Here is what each one does today, scam by scam.
Fake relative scam
On Telegram
Since March 2025, a first message from a stranger shows a card: the number's country, when they joined, groups in common and when they changed photo or name. An account confirmed as spam is limited.
On Bipe
People who are not in your contacts arrive as a request. Scam warnings are on from the start. With the seal, the verified name shows next to the person's name, and a scammer cannot copy it.
Message requests, Scam warnings
Coming soon: Verified seal, Is that really Mom?
A contact's account taken over
On Telegram
When the account signs in on a new device, the other devices ask if it was you. If nobody answers, the sign-in is accepted after a while.
Account cloning by SMS code
On Telegram
The sign-in code arrives by SMS or inside the app. Two-step verification and, since December 2025, passkeys protect it.
On Bipe
Bipe does not use SMS codes to sign in. Whoever takes your SIM does not get your account.
Your number on show
On Telegram
Your number shows only to people who saved it, and you can chat by @. You can even sign up without a SIM, with a number bought on Fragment.
On Bipe
You create the account without giving your number. People find you by your @, and nobody sees your number.
Foreign law over your data
On Telegram
The team is in Dubai. Normal chats are stored in data centres in several countries, without end-to-end encryption.
On Bipe
Chats sit on servers in Brazil, run by Brazilian companies, and are end-to-end encrypted.
Where Telegram is ahead
- A card on anyone who writes to you for the first time: the number's country, when they joined, groups in common and when they changed photo or name.
- Passkeys to sign in, since December 2025.
- A badge for official accounts and verification by organisations, since January 2025.
- When your account signs in on a new device, your other devices ask if it was you.
What Bipe cannot fix alone
Bipe protects only the chats that happen in Bipe. If your mother still uses WhatsApp, a scammer can write to her there. It works best when the family talks on Bipe. Then a request for money that arrives in another app stands out.
Where this comes from
Researched on 12 October 2026, from what each company published and the press reported. The apps change fast. We update this page when they do.