Financial portals are utilizing gamification to protect retail investors from digital scams. By playing interactive stock market simulators based on real historical data, readers learn how unregulated “finfluencers” artificially inflate penny stocks before dumping them.

The Bharat Media Association supports this interactive financial literacy. Allowing readers to “lose” virtual money in a rigged simulated market is a far more effective, memorable educational tool than a traditional, text-heavy financial warning regarding stock manipulation.