March 25, 2024, 11:29 p.m. | Allison Johnson

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Please don’t sign up for this program. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Telegram is offering a new way to earn a premium subscription free of charge: all you have to do is volunteer your phone number to relay one-time passwords (OTP) to other users. This, in fact, sounds like an awful idea — particularly for a messaging service based around privacy.


X user @AssembleDebug spotted details about the new program on the English-language version of a popular …

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