{"id":1009527,"date":"2026-05-23T09:14:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009527"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:49:27","slug":"sebi-targets-finfluencer-misconduct-to-protect-retail-investors-freezes-accounts-of-perpetrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/23\/sebi-targets-finfluencer-misconduct-to-protect-retail-investors-freezes-accounts-of-perpetrators\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebi targets &#8216;finfluencer&#8217; misconduct to protect retail investors, freezes accounts of perpetrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Friday issued an interim order banning multiple unregistered &#8220;finfluencers&#8221; and entities from the stock market for running a &#8220;pump-and-dump&#8221; manipulation racket on social media. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Sebi order, the operators bought small\/mid-cap stocks, artificially inflated prices by sharing unsubstantiated bullish tips to followers, and then dumped their shares at a massive profit, leaving retail investors with heavy losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Friday issued an interim order banning multiple unregistered &#8220;finfluencers&#8221; and entities from the stock market for running a &#8220;pump-and-dump&#8221; manipulation racket on social media. According to the Sebi order, the operators bought small\/mid-cap stocks, artificially inflated prices by sharing unsubstantiated bullish tips to followers, and then dumped their shares at a massive profit, leaving retail investors with heavy losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009550,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009527\/revisions\/1009550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}