[57217] Blatant advertisements on Telegram: Turkish financial channels promote joining closed groups

Aggressive marketing activity in financial Telegram channels

Throughout the day, May 12, 2026, active advertising activity was identified on the Turkish Telegram channels Borsa Haber 🔔 and Borsa Haber Hisse🥇, which typically deal with capital market analysis. The channels, which collectively received 2,925 views on this content, focused on promoting recruitment for external groups.

The 'Urgency' Strategy

According to Borsa Haber 🔔, a tactic of creating urgency was used to drive users to take action. The message posted on the channel stated: "GİREN GİRSİN SİLİYORUM SON 120 KİŞİ" (loosely translated: "Whoever enters, enters, I am deleting, 120 spots left").

The messages, which were explicitly marked as #reklam (advertisement), are part of a pattern of exploiting audiences with economic interests for the purpose of expanding external distribution networks. Both channels are identified with intensive sponsored content aimed at retail investors in Turkey, often using blatant marketing language to maximize conversion rates of followers to private groups.