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Social media is awash with glamorous users promising to help you get rich with savvy financial investments. But some so-called “finfluencers” lack proper licenses and may enrich themselves by promoting unauthorised brokers.

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Marta Portocarrero

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Thousands of Europeans are falling prey to online investment scams peddled on social media. Tech firms and public authorities are failing to shield citizens in the shadow of the Digital Services Act, Investigate Europe can reveal.

16 October 2025

Mei-Ling McNamara, Nico Schmidt, Pascal Hansens, Lorenzo Buzzoni, Paula Zwolenski

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