To my Telegram via the link

A friend sent me a link on Telegram to vote for a girl at an art exhibition. I know you shouldn't click on links, but I didn't suspect anything because this same woman had sent a similar link about 3 years ago and everything was fine. I thought maybe it was her granddaughter. That's how a scammer got into my account; he sent links to all my contacts and asked everyone for a loan of 50,000 in my name (since it was on my page). I found out by chance when a friend messaged me. I started deleting everything, but this bastard kept writing again and again right before my eyes, addressing people by name and asking for loans. Many people realized it was a scammer (because the way he addressed them was wrong). You can't kick him out immediately; you have to wait 24 hours. Then my VPN stopped working, so I decided to change my operator from Tele2 (which blocks all VPNs, proxies, and phone-to-computer sharing) to MTS while keeping my number. I ordered a SIM card, was given a temporary number while the transfer was in progress, the courier delivered it, and I was able to log into Telegram and kick out the scoundrel, closing his session. I was very nervous and worried about people while fighting the scammer and when I couldn't log in and he was messing around in my profile. Don't click on links, enable two-factor authentication so no one can get into your account.