TelegramMessenger / TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS
[Anti-Scam feature] Please force usernames to be shown in monospace font
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Description
This is an advice for a new feature that is very simple but would have a great impact on Telegram security. Scammers are all over most Telegram groups and they always try to impersonate a group admin by using the same picture and imitating their username by just swapping one letter with a very similar, usually indistinguishable, character or symbol. Eg. a “I” with a “l”, a “O” with a “0” and so on (consider hundreds of special utf characters can be used too).
My suggestion is to make the username show up with courier font or any fixed-size font in the user profile: this trick would make immediately visible the different characters in the username of the scammer and save a lot of honest users from scams.
Thank you
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Research direction
No file or test is identified in the issue. Start by locating the user profile username rendering in the Swift iOS app; done means usernames use a fixed-width font in profiles so lookalike characters are easier to distinguish.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100