An Instagram comment hidden by the platform itself. A reviewer blacklisted from a Discord community for sharing a complaint. A one-star review dated August 12 2026, warning investors to put their money elsewhere. Three separate accounts, from three separate people, describing three separate problems. None of them know each other. All of them are public. […]
Equity Edge Research Analyst is real and is not operating anonymously. What the website does not tell you is equally important. The person SEBI holds accountable for this registration, Vishal Borse, is named nowhere on the firm’s own website. Pending complaints climbed from zero at the end of 2024 to six by the 2026 reporting
Goldman Sachs India holds a genuine SEBI Research Analyst registration, and one detail about it surprises most first-time readers. There is no page on Goldman Sachs’s website where an individual investor can sign up for its research service, see a price, or make a payment. That is not a compliance gap. It reflects how the
Debashish was contacted by an individual who presented himself as a SEBI registered Research Analyst, offering to manage his portfolio directly and generate a specific daily profit figure. The arrangement was framed as a profit sharing model, initially set at twenty five percent of gains. That ratio did not stay fixed. Later in the relationship,
Deepak was approached by individuals marketing an automated algo trading tool. They described it in concrete, specific terms: a system that would generate consistent daily profits somewhere between fifty and sixty thousand rupees. He paid ₹1,65,000 for the software. It was linked directly to his trading account and began placing trades automatically, without any further
Jayshree came across an investment advertisement while browsing Facebook. Within a short time of engaging with it, she began receiving phone calls from unknown individuals urging her to invest. By the third call, she was persuaded to transfer an initial amount through Google Pay. Further transfers followed over the coming weeks, made in good faith
Agraj was introduced to a broker’s franchisee through a business contact, who assured him of safe trading and guaranteed profits. He never handed over his login credentials directly. Under sustained pressure and repeated verbal reassurance, he was made to log into his own demat account while she watched. That access became the entry point for
Neha received a call from a representative of a firm registered with SEBI as a Research Analyst. He offered a trial trade to demonstrate the firm’s capability before asking for any commitment. That trial showed a small profit of about a thousand rupees. On the back of that result, she was asked to pay a
Vishal was contacted by individuals claiming to represent a trading firm, each one using a different first name across different calls. They told him they were SEBI approved analysts, a claim that was never true. They described a client base in the tens of thousands and referenced a certification meant to signal credibility. None of
Rajeev Sant (name changed) is from Amravati, Maharashtra. He told the caller upfront that he had no time to manage trades himself. That single detail is exactly what the firm used to sell him a service it was never allowed to provide. Rajeev received an unsolicited call from a representative of a firm registered with
Samir Deshpande (name changed) is from Solapur, Maharashtra. His account did not lose money slowly. It was emptied, refilled, and emptied again, each time on someone else’s instruction. He was first approached by a broker representative who spent about two weeks sending him profit screenshots before persuading him to open an account. He shared his
Arjun Waghmare (name changed) was first contacted by a representative of his broker who pushed him to open a trading account. He was direct about it. He said he was not interested and would not share access or control of any account. Weeks later, a different representative called, introducing himself as Arjun’s relationship manager. This
