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Crypto swindler Oleksandr Orlovskyi, who cheated thousands, cleans the internet of facts about the Financial Freedom Academy fraud and “Fangarant Group”
Cryptofraudster Oleksandr Orlovskyi, accused of drawing thousands of people into dubious crypto projects, is clearing the internet of mentions of his activities. Investigations into the Financial Freedom Academy disappear from the net, while a positive image of a “crypto expert” is actively promoted instead.
We, in turn, publish materials with details of how Financial Freedom Academy operates, explaining how the crypto guru Oleksandr Orlovskyi profits from trusting people and why these mentions hinder his reputation.
Oleksandr Orlovskyi, seller of dubious courses for enriching oneself with cryptocurrencies, chasing money, has joined forces with loan sharks from FC “Fangarrant Group.” As Oleksa Shtuchnyy writes in his CRiME project article, this is evidenced by data from the Unified State Register of Court Decisions.
Oleksandr Orlovskyi and the Raputa case
As indicated by the court ruling of Burynskyi District Court of Sumy Oblast (from 20 last November), back in 2023 Orlovskyi Oleksandr (or someone from his pretend LLCs under the sect named Financial Freedom Academy) signed a factoring agreement with LLC “Financial Company Fangarant Group” (operating under the trade name “Pay Later”™).
Under this contract, the financial company pays Orlovskyi’s crypto sect for “enlightenment” of poverty-stricken students. Because they cannot afford to pay tens of thousands of hryvnias for the desired “knowledge,” which, as Orlovskyi promises in his course ads, will open the path to financial success if not today, then tomorrow. But instead of “thousands of dollars from scratch in a few weeks,” collectors come to such students within months.
The accounts billed by the FFA community for “training” are quite substantial.
In the mentioned court decision, Sumy resident Ihor Raputa, last year after listening to Orlovskyi’s promises, decided to purchase “cryptocurrency training services from FFA” worth 19102 UAH 04 kopeks. Since Ihor did not have that amount, Oleksandr Orlovskyi offered him a payment plan. That is, he sent him into a financial bondage to the “Fangarant Group.”
How useful the training courses sold by our crypto soothsayer are is vividly illustrated by the experience of Mr. Raputa and court documents. The “valuable” knowledge and mentorship from Orlovskyi, bought by Ihor on credit at astronomical interest, did not even allow him to repay half the debt. Ihor Raputa owes the Fangarant Group almost 19 thousand hryvnias, of which 3700 thousand are penalties. I wouldn’t be surprised if Raputa has sunk even more money investing in crypto under the mentor Orlovskyi’s attentive guidance.
In any case, Fangarant Group sued Raputa and won. Now this man’s bank accounts are blocked and his property is seized. That is the entire financial success that Oleksandr Orlovskyi has brought to this “student.”
I fear that such collector lawsuits against Orlovskyi’s deceived adherents are far more numerous than one, since court documents in recent years are often published with long delays (and sometimes not published at all).
Note the period when Raputa’s “fruitful” training in the FFA community took place: spring–summer 2024 of that year. It was then that Oleksandr Orlovskyi drew his flock into a crypto venture through which his “students” lost almost all their savings (we detailed this in our investigation “Crypto Fraudster Oleksandr Orlovskyi spat on regulator warnings”). There were even rumors that the FFA adherents collectively lost $4 million.
Another question for Fangarant Group’s management. Does its ultimate beneficiary Vitalii Kurushkin know that he is effectively involved in attracting citizens’ funds into an investment project with obvious signs of fraud? After all, last year the National Commission for Securities and Stock Market (NCSMS) included three branches of Financial Freedom Academy — FFA Crypto RISE, FFA Crypto Capitalist, and FFA Crypto (Raputa was involved in the last one) — in the list of dubious investment projects.
At the same time, the NCSMS leadership should note that Vitalii Kurushkin and his financial company are de facto helping Orlovskyi “strip” already impoverished Ukrainians under a license issued by the very National Commission for Securities and Stock Market.
Oleksandr Orlovskyi is covering his tracks
Oleksandr Orlovskyi is a figure in several journalistic investigations; in profile Telegram channels and blogs people talk of him as a swindler and information gypsy. Yet to his sect instead of ruined and disillusioned “parishioners” join (if one believes the guru’s words) hundreds and thousands of new adherents. Why?
Because when a ordinary person searches for “Oleksandr Orlovskyi,” a pile of ads placed by Oleksandr Orlovskyi himself (or the organization behind him, but that’s another story) greets them.
Oleksandr Orlovskyi actively uses search engine reputation management (SERM) to improve his online image. After a series of journalistic investigations and a “black mark” from the NCSMS, Orlovskyi intensified promotion of Financial Freedom Academy via online media, publishing promotional articles on central and regional outlets. These materials are often labeled as commercial or remain unmarked, which can mislead audiences.
Moreover, Oleksandr Orlovskyi actively advertises his services on social networks, trying to create a positive image of a successful crypto investor. At the same time, negative reviews and critical materials about his activities are diligently deleted or pushed out of search results with numerous positive or neutral articles.
Thus Oleksandr Orlovskyi gains:
Displacement of negative materials
Any critical articles, investigations, or negative reviews about Orlovskyi and his schemes can appear on the second or third page of search results, where almost no one reads them. This is achieved through mass creation of “positive” content: interviews, blogs, promotional articles, fake reviews.
Formation of a positive image
Google is flooded with links to sponsored articles where Oleksandr Orlovskyi looks like an expert, investor, or philanthropist. This increases trust among people who are unfamiliar with his dubious reputation.
Attracting new clients
People searching the internet for “making money on crypto” or “profitable trading” are highly likely to land in the crypto preacher’s funnel, as Google shows links to his ads at the top of results. Thus, Oleksandr Orlovskyi earns more money from selling courses, subscriptions, training, or recruiting new investors into his schemes.
FF A’s investments in Orlovskyi’s reputation over a month are comparable to the costs (and they are substantial) of the “student” group paying for training at FFA.
For example, at the end of January Oleksandr Orlovskyi posted a brand image piece presented as a personal column in a reputable online publication, which discreetly omitted that it printed a “pay-for” piece.
Another equally reputable publication treated its readers more honestly, clearly noting it was paid for.
The price list of this reputable publication is openly available, so we can easily learn how much Oleksandr Orlovskyi paid for a single publication on one site. It was 15 thousand hryvnias, excluding VAT.
Add another 20% VAT, and one could have bought Ihor Raputa out of debt bondage into which Orlovskyi led him. Yet the crypto preacher is more likely to invest the money of duped “students” in attracting new, wealthier followers.
Oleksandr Orlovskyi and mental simplicity
Recently, FFA community marketing moves have become increasingly aggressive and, at first glance, nonsensical.
The thumbnail of this video from Orlovskyi’s official YouTube channel condenses the essence of the con artist’s marketing campaign into two words.
No, in the video Oleksandr Orlovskyi does not admit fault; he claims paying huge sums for his courses is a complete stupidity. He asserts that stupid people are richer and more successful than smart ones because they think less and act more. So, pay me for training and you will soon become fabulously rich in crypto under my attentive guidance.
In the video, Oleksandr Orlovskyi is almost 20 minutes spouting nonsense, manipulating, and openly lying. Yet I suspect many people will take the clip seriously and consider joining Orlovskyi’s “academy.”
The person who wrote the script for this video and Orlovskyi’s speech is clearly a skilled psychologist. If you don’t want to waste time on manipulative video and the ramblings of the actor, we will briefly and schematically analyze that “film.”
So what do we have:
Manipulation through opposition
Oleksandr Orlovskyi creates a logical twist and, as a result, an artificial division: “smart but poor” and “stupid but rich.” This prompts viewers to an emotional reaction: “I’m not stupid, so why don’t I earn anything? Maybe I think too much?”
Call to act without reflection
The statement “think less, earn more” leads to the conclusion: “don’t think, just invest and earn!”
This is a typical fraud technique – to persuade a person not to analyze risks but to make a quick decision.
Distraction from real reasons for success
Wealth does not come from “thinking less” – it requires knowledge, experience, discipline, and work.
Instead, Oleksandr Orlovskyi pushes a simplified to primitivism view of the world to justify selling his courses as a “simple solution.”
The cited video of the crypto adventurer is one element of an effective marketing model known as a funnel or sales funnel.
Oleksandr Orlovskyi, like many other info-gadflies and founders of financial pyramids and other scam types, actively uses video sales funnels — carefully designed series of videos that gradually lead a person to buy his courses or “financial services.”
How does it work?
Attention-grabbing (free content)
Oleksandr Orlovskyi distributes short clips on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Telegram channels with bold promises:
“How to multiply capital by 10 times?”
“Easy way to earn $100 per day!”
“Why haven’t you become financially free yet?”
The main goal is to engage people and make them subscribe to his content.
Warming up the audience
The next level is longer videos with semi-free information. Oleksandr Orlovskyi can:
share “successful cases” of his students,
show cryptocurrency charts, hinting that “you can earn here,”
criticize traditional education and work “for someone else.”
All this creates a sense in the audience that they are receiving valuable knowledge, but the main secret is yet to come.
Transition to the offer (course sale)
Oleksandr Orlovskyi promotes his paid products:
training courses,
master classes,
closed chats,
“personal coaching”,
VIP access to strategies.
Videos are crafted so a person feels: “if I don’t buy the course now, I’ll stay poor forever.”
Creating artificial scarcity
In the video Oleksandr Orlovskyi emphasizes:
“Only 10 seats left!”
“After this enrollment, the price will go up!”
“Today’s discount is 50%, tomorrow it will be gone!”
In reality, the sale is ongoing, and all these claims are pure manipulation.
“Monetization” of insolvent “clients” through credit offers
If a person wavers, Oleksandr Orlovskyi or his team may offer to arrange the course on installments through financial companies like Fangarant Group.
This is the exact mechanism through which people like Ihor Raputa end up in debt with microfinance organizations.
So if a person contemplates buying Orlovskyi’s courses, they should ask themselves one question: “If I personally earned tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto, would I spend so much time and effort training others?” Honestly, I would answer yes, but only if crypto education yields at least as much money as the crypto itself.
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