# Bipe and Telegram against scams · Bipe

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.
  - 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.
- **On Bipe**: Scam warnings check every message you get, also from people in your contacts.

## 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.

- [Telegram API: action bar for chats with non-contacts](https://core.telegram.org/api/action-bar)
- [Telegram: Star messages, Gateway 2.0 and more (Mar 2025)](https://telegram.org/blog/star-messages-gateway-2-0-and-more)
- [Telegram: Spam FAQ](https://telegram.org/faq_spam)
- [Telegram API: authorization and new login alerts](https://core.telegram.org/api/auth)
- [Telegram FAQ](https://telegram.org/faq)
- [Telegram: Passkeys (Dec 2025)](https://telegram.org/blog/passkeys-and-gift-offers)
- [Telegram: Verification](https://telegram.org/verify)
- [Telegram: Ultimate privacy, numbers on Fragment (Dec 2022)](https://telegram.org/blog/ultimate-privacy-topics-2-0)


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