Hello, I noticed this trading community popped out of nowhere. It comes off as very, very fake to me (the first sign is the theme of discussing trading stocks at ALL in lemmy.ml).

All of the accounts below posing as people seemingly interested in trading have been created on the same day (Jan 03):

Using reverse image search on one of their pfps results in multiple images (not showing it here since it shows other people that look similar but are not tied to the same persona).

The upvotes are obviously forged because the number of Jan 3rd accounts match the number of upvotes.

Lastly, there’s a link to their telegram. I haven’t gotten into it yet but that is for SURE a red flag, it’s a common tactic to create separate communities in different platforms only to lure unsuspecting people into a telegam/etc… community.

Do I really need to say any more?