Zerodha official social media handles and how to spot fakes

Zerodha maintains a published set of official social media handles and domains, fronted by the support handle @zerodhaonline on X and the website zerodha.com , against which any account, message, or link claiming to be from Zerodha can be checked. Zerodha Broking Limited is a SEBI-registered stock broker (SEBI registration INZ000031633), and any handle, group, or app outside its published list, especially one offering tips, guaranteed returns, advisory, or asking for money, is not Zerodha.

Impersonation is the live threat this page addresses. SEBI warned in February 2024 of a rising trend of unscrupulous entities and online platforms falsely claiming to be SEBI-registered, showing fake certificates and promising assured high returns. Fraudsters clone broker branding on X, Instagram, YouTube, Telegram, and WhatsApp, buy or misuse verification badges, and post fabricated profit screenshots from clone apps. The defence is mechanical: know the exact official handles, know what a genuine broker never does, and verify the broker’s registration and any payment handle against a primary source before acting.

This article gives the verified handle table by platform, the official domains and contact points, the behaviours that mark an account as fake regardless of how legitimate it looks, and the SEBI tools, the registered-intermediary database, the SEBI Check tool, and the @valid UPI framework, that let you confirm legitimacy independently.

Conflict-of-interest disclosure. This article is published by the WebNotes Editorial Team for informational purposes and is written independently. WebNotes operates a Zerodha account-opening referral programme, disclosed on the pages that carry the referral link; this article does not carry it and earns no referral commission.

Official handles by platform

The table below lists Zerodha’s official social media handles as published on its support portal and Z-Connect blog. Handles change over time, so a single source of truth, the official list on support.zerodha.com, overrides any copy, including this one; treat this table as a guide and confirm against the live page if a handle is borderline.

Two points sharpen the list. First, the founders’ personal handles, Nithin Kamath and Nikhil Kamath, are widely impersonated; the genuine ones are listed by Zerodha alongside the corporate accounts, but a personal handle is never a channel through which Zerodha collects money or credentials, so the same rules apply. Second, the presence of a Telegram broadcast handle does not mean Zerodha runs Telegram support or tip groups; it does not. Any Telegram or WhatsApp group purporting to give Zerodha buy/sell calls is fraudulent.

Official domains and contact points

Branding is easy to copy; the domain and the support email are harder to fake convincingly and are the more reliable anchors.

• Website: zerodha.com, with the trading and account apps at kite.zerodha.com (Kite ) and console.zerodha.com .
• Support portal: support.zerodha.com, the only official help-article and ticketing domain.
• Support email: support@zerodha.com is the single official support address. Mail from any other domain claiming to be Zerodha support is suspect; see how to verify a Zerodha email .
• Coin (mutual funds): coin.zerodha.com.

A link that arrives by SMS, DM, or email and points anywhere other than these domains, including look-alikes such as a hyphenated or differently-spelled variant, should not be opened or logged into. Type zerodha.com yourself rather than following a link.

What a genuine Zerodha account never does

The fastest test is behavioural, because it does not depend on getting a handle character-perfect. Zerodha states plainly that it does the following: it does not provide advisory or portfolio management services, so it never gives buy/sell tips; it does not provide support over WhatsApp or Telegram chat; it never asks for your OTP, password, PIN, or KYC documents over chat, call, email, or DM; and it never asks you to transfer funds to a bank account in order to provide support. It also does not share client information with third parties.

Any account that does one of these, a “Zerodha” DM offering a tip, a “support agent” on WhatsApp asking for an OTP, a handle asking you to send money to “activate” or “unblock” something, is an impostor regardless of its name, badge, or follower count. The behaviour is the tell. A real broker’s economics do not include cold-DMing strangers with guaranteed returns; an unregistered fraud’s do.

How impostor handles operate

Three techniques recur, and each has a counter.

Badge misuse. On platforms where a verified badge can be purchased or transferred, scammers buy one so a clone account looks authentic. The counter: ignore the badge and match the exact handle string against the official list, because the badge certifies a payment, not an identity you can trust.

Fabricated proof. Impostors post screenshots of large profits, often generated by a clone app that fakes a Kite or Console profit-and-loss screen. The counter: no screenshot is evidence of anything, and Zerodha does not publish client P&L or guarantee returns; SEBI prohibits any registered adviser from promising fixed returns, so a guaranteed-return claim is itself proof of fraud.

Urgency and money movement. The script ends in a request to act now and to move money or share a credential, an OTP, a UPI PIN, a transfer to a “personal account”. The counter: Zerodha never solicits a fund transfer to a personal or third-party account; client money moves only to your registered bank or UPI and into the broker’s regulated pool, never to an individual. See does Zerodha solicit fund transfers for the regulatory detail.

Verifying the broker and its payment handles

Two primary-source checks let you confirm legitimacy without trusting any handle.

The SEBI registered-intermediary database lists every registered stock broker with its name, SEBI registration number, and status. Zerodha Broking Limited holds registration INZ000031633. You can search the database at sebi.gov.in and confirm the registration number against the entity claiming to be Zerodha. An entity not on the database, or one quoting a registration that does not resolve, is not a registered intermediary, whatever its certificates show.

SEBI Check and the @valid UPI framework address the payment leg specifically. From 1 October 2025, SEBI required every registered intermediary that collects investor funds to use a structured UPI address ending in the exclusive @valid handle issued by NPCI, with a readable username and a category suffix (for example .brk for brokers), shown to the payer with a thumbs-up-in-green-triangle icon. SEBI Check is the companion tool that lets an investor confirm a UPI handle or bank account belongs to a registered intermediary before transferring money. The framework covers roughly 9,000 registered intermediaries, and SEBI clarified that the burden falls on intermediaries, not investors, who can still use NEFT, RTGS, and IMPS but are encouraged to prefer a @valid handle. If a “Zerodha” payment request uses a personal UPI ID rather than a verifiable @valid intermediary handle, it is fraudulent.

Reporting a fake handle

If you find an account impersonating Zerodha, do not engage and do not share any detail. Report it to the platform under its impersonation policy, and report it to Zerodha through a support ticket at support.zerodha.com so Zerodha can pursue takedown. If the account sought money or credentials, treat it as fraud: report suspected fraudulent communication on the Chakshu facility at sancharsathi.gov.in, and if you have lost money or shared a credential, report immediately on the national cybercrime helpline 1930 or at cybercrime.gov.in. For an unregistered entity giving investment tips in Zerodha’s name, you can also complain to SEBI through SCORES .

See also

• Zerodha
• Is Zerodha safe?
• Zerodha cyber security
• Zerodha hack and security incidents
• How to verify a call from Zerodha
• How to verify a Zerodha email
• Does Zerodha solicit fund transfers?
• How to stop stock-tip SMS in Zerodha’s name
• Kite by Zerodha
• Zerodha Console
• How to add funds to Zerodha via UPI
• How to create a Zerodha ticket
• Zerodha customer care number
• Zerodha investor charter
• Zerodha grievance redressal
• Zerodha SCORES
• How to file an investor grievance with Zerodha
• Finfluencer SEBI ban and Zerodha referrals
• Investor protection
• SEBI
• How to set up TOTP on Zerodha
• How to freeze and unfreeze a Zerodha demat account
• How to reset 2FA on Zerodha
• Zerodha client password policy
• CDSL

External references

• Zerodha support: What are the official social media handles of Zerodha?
• Z-Connect: Zerodha’s official accounts on social media platforms
• SEBI registered-intermediary search (stock brokers)
• SEBI: Caution to investors against unauthorised entities (investor education)
• National cybercrime reporting portal

References

1. Zerodha support, What are the official social media handles of Zerodha? (verified handles by platform, official domains and support email; as of 20 June 2026).
2. Z-Connect by Zerodha, Zerodha’s official accounts on social media platforms (impostor warnings, behaviours Zerodha never engages in; as of 20 June 2026).
3. SEBI press release, caution against unscrupulous entities falsely claiming SEBI registration and promising assured returns, February 2024.
4. SEBI circular introducing validated @valid UPI handles and the SEBI Check tool, dated 11 June 2025, effective 1 October 2025 (existing UPI IDs valid until 11 December 2026).
5. SEBI registered-intermediary database, Zerodha Broking Limited, SEBI registration INZ000031633.
6. SEBI (Investment Advisers) Regulations, 2013 and SEBI (Research Analysts) Regulations, 2014 (registration mandatory; assured-return promises prohibited).

WebNotes Editorial Team prepares factual reference articles based on publicly available regulatory documents and broker disclosures. WebNotes is not affiliated with Zerodha Broking Limited. Handles and tools are subject to change; verify the current official list at support.zerodha.com and registration at sebi.gov.in before acting.