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Fraud Watch

@fraudwatcher

On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Cite this entry

445subscribers

+0 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1002430796612
TypeChannel
Username@fraudwatcher
CreatedBetween 1 September 2024 and 31 March 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded8 August 2026
Last confirmed live3 October 2026
Measurements held10
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 3 October 2026
On Telegramt.me/fraudwatcher

Topic

Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 21 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 97% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.

Growth

4452,9721,708.57 August 2026 — 445 subscribers8 August 2026 — 445 subscribers8 August 2026 — 457 subscribers16 August 2026 — 2,972 subscribers19 August 2026 — 1,605 subscribers22 August 2026 — 923 subscribers30 August 2026 — 485 subscribers9 September 2026 — 476 subscribers18 September 2026 — 467 subscribers3 October 2026 — 445 subscribers7 August 20263 October 2026
10 measurements spanning 56 days. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 66–3,351 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
3 Oct 2026, 06:42445-22
18 Sept 2026, 01:19467-9
9 Sept 2026, 07:14476-9
30 Aug 2026, 06:05485-438
22 Aug 2026, 09:28923-682
19 Aug 2026, 09:081,605-1,367
16 Aug 2026, 17:372,972+2,515
8 Aug 2026, 17:36457+12
8 Aug 2026, 05:04445no change
7 Aug 2026, 19:42445first reading

Engagement

20 posts held, back to 5 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.

Reaction mix

4 reactions across 2 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 50.0% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
❤250.0%
🤣250.0%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 3 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 4 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 7 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Recent posts

7 Aug 2026, 22:48 UTC98 viewsread 8 August 2026

big ginormous voluptuous juicy girthy things coming soon guys

7 Aug 2026, 19:24 UTC139 viewsread 8 August 2026
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⚠️ JUST IN: Nearly 800 malicious npm packages were published in a single campaign dropping a cross-platform RAT and infostealer. The packages use randomly generated or AI-generated typosquatted names mimicking legitimate libraries, hitting developers on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The payload grants full remote access and harvests credentials, tokens, and crypto wallet data — turning any infected build machine into …

7 Aug 2026, 18:28 UTC123 views0 reactionsread 8 August 2026
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⚠️ JUST IN: Bybit has sued North Korea and the Lazarus Group over the $1.5B hack — the largest crypto theft on record. A U.S. federal judge has frozen identified assets tied to the attack, as the exchange moves to claw back stolen funds. The FBI previously attributed the breach to North Korean state actors. @fraudwatcher

7 Aug 2026, 05:14 UTC88 viewsread 8 August 2026
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⚡️ UPDATE: The Coldcard hacker has moved 30.185 BTC — roughly $1.94 million — into a fresh wallet. The transfer signals renewed laundering of proceeds from the $130 million breach, after a period of dormancy. Investigators and chain-analysis firms are tracking the addresses as the funds get shuffled, with exchanges the likely next chokepoint. @fraudwatcher

7 Aug 2026, 02:34 UTC101 viewsread 8 August 2026
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⚠️ JUST IN: Attackers drained $5.7M by guessing wallet seed phrases outright. A flaw in several crypto wallet apps produced seed phrases with far less randomness than the standard requires, shrinking the pool of possible combinations. That let attackers mass-generate phrases until one matched a live wallet — no phishing, no malware, no user mistake required. Funds were swept the moment a hit landed. Affected users…

7 Aug 2026, 00:45 UTC153 viewsread 8 August 2026
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⚠️ JUST IN: A researcher claims Telegram's gift number system is being gamed to snap up rare "beautiful numbers." The pattern: whenever a sequence like #3333, #5555 or #7777 was up for upgrade, a user named "Tanya" allegedly upgraded the numbers immediately before and after it — then the prize number surfaced minutes later already in her possession. "Tanya" has reportedly been linked to a second account, "Artem," r…

6 Aug 2026, 12:06 UTC129 viewsread 8 August 2026
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⚠️ JUST IN: Physical "wrench attacks" on crypto holders have netted more than $30M so far in 2026, per Chainalysis. Researchers documented 46 attempts, though only 12 ended in an actual payout — kidnappers and home invaders increasingly target victims' families when the holder won't hand over keys. Analysts tie the surge to data leaks exposing wallet ownership and personal addresses, turning online exposure into re…

6 Aug 2026, 11:38 UTC126 viewsread 8 August 2026
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⚠️ EXPLOIT: 64 BTC and 200 ETH from the Coldcard exploit have been pushed into crypto mixers. The attackers are laundering only part of the haul — the bulk of the stolen assets still sits in traceable, attacker-controlled wallets. Mixer use suggests an active cash-out attempt, giving investigators a narrow window to flag the outputs before they hit exchanges. @fraudwatcher

Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @fraudwatcher. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 3 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Fraud Watch” (@fraudwatcher), 445 subscribers as measured 3 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/fraudwatcher.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.