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After the first public mentions and critical posts appeared on the Internet, Oleksandr Orlovskyi's team immediately began to clean up the traces of his activities: payment data disappeared, websites were altered, and the widespread legends were adjusted. This hurried “cleaning” itself became another clue that behind the facade of a successful crypto guru there is something to hide.
When another “cryptocurrency expert” from all possible channels started pushing themselves into our eyes and ears, the reaction was: "Oh God, not another one!" To be honest, our editorial team is tired of explaining obvious things to people only to watch them nod in understanding and then hand over their hard-earned money to the next fraudster.
Well — Oleksandr Orlovskyi is not the first and will not be the last. Let us examine why this self-styled a“expert in the cryptocurrency market and investments” is another swindler who deceives those who look for fast “free money” as cleverly as it is primitively. In reality, one could hardly fault him for anything; one could even consider him a real teacher, as he sometimes calls himself — Orlovskyi ultimately teaches credulous people in the most straightforward way that there is no “free cheese” except in a mousetrap. There is no “Freebie” by definition; everything has its price.
Even a single visit to Oleksandr Orlovskyis personal website, where he promotes himself and his courses, should be enough for a reasonable person to forget about him forever. The site promises to teach practically without effort from scratch how to earn a thousand dollars per week. After all, not per day, but the advertising is cleverly structured — smart people will not fall for Orlovskyis promises, and those who believe in quick “free money” are precisely his target audience.
Then comes the usual program: stories about how Orlovskyi rose from bartender to cryptocurrency millionaire, grateful and enthusiastic testimonials, and simple life stories of the lucky who followed Orlovskyis advice and bought his cryptocurrency courses. Generally, everything is as usual. For those interested — here is the link. But we will not recount this whole idiotic nonsense, please forgive us.
We cannot resist showing yet another wonderful passage about Oleksandr Orlovskyis path to “self-made” success. The source is TSN, which set journalistic standards in Ukraine about two decades ago, but has since become open trash with lies, sorcery, spirits and ghosts delivering cosmic but equally stupid predictions. It is obvious that Oleksandr Orlovskyi bought advertising there, but for a reasonable person the mere fact that someone is advertised on TSN should be enough to not believe what these “journalists” report.
Okay, if that is not enough, we go about it differently. Orlovskyi claims to be the founder of the closed community FFA (Financial Freedom Academy), which is aggressively advertised on all kinds of platforms and over which Orlovskyis “crypto” courses are sold. And here we encounter two contradictions.
First — there is no legal entity named Financial Freedom Academy in any available registry. Neither in Ukraine nor in Poland or Dubai, where Oleksandr Orlovskyi allegedly lives. The question is: who is selling the courses? The answer is on his website. Because every person who agrees to buy the course receives a contract and a bank account for payment. The recipient of this money is Oleksandr Orlovskyi.
This information contradicts Orlovskyis narrative that he grew up in a small town, went to Poland at 16 years, lost his first hundred dollars with cryptocurrencies, then had his mother’s jewelry stolen and also lost that with crypto, before a local unknown “guru” helped him recover everything. Supposedly he lived in Warsaw and then moved to Dubai — or according to other versions, he is still in the process of moving. Again a charming story in the style of unbearably kitschy Indian films about a “poor but honest millionaire.”
But that is not the point — what matters is why these details completely undermine the story. To register as a self-employed person, you must have a fixed residence. If the young Sasha left Ukraine at 16 years old and never returned, he should be registered at his parents’ residence. In a “small provincial town,” as his biographers write. Lesya-Ukrainka Boulevard is right in the center, in Pechersk. That is Kyiv and has little to do with province. An obvious blunder.
Second—we should not forget the advertising for his courses on the homepage of his website. It clearly states: “no investments.” How profits from something you must first buy and then sell can come from “no investments” is apparently known only to Oleksandr Orlovskyi. For the courses you still have to pay, and a substantial amount — equivalent to a thousand dollars at the current exchange rate, i.e. 40.500 Hryvnia. If that is not an investment, what is?
If that is not enough, we continue. Although Oleksandr Orlovskyi is listed as the seller of the course with the tax identification number 3589610358, the money somehow flows to another self-employed person — Kateryna Serhutina. This is the result of just a single experiment when trying to buy a course from Orlovskyi. There is a strong suspicion that there are many such “Serhutinas”; they will be used as receivers of funds for a while and, once they are exposed, simply abandoned.
This is confirmed by a lawsuit filed by a citizen, Mykola Tereshchenko, against Oleksandr Orlovskyi (Pechersk District Court in Kyiv, file no. 757/460/24-c). From court documents it appears that Orlovskyi not only sells crypto courses but also earns money from training courses on “paid testing of games.” For 3.750 Hrywnja per course. Second, payments for these courses are also received into non-officially disclosed accounts.
From this suit, which the court also dismissed, another conclusion arises — the image of the crypto-millionaire does not really fit the picture of a small crook who squeezes naive “game testers” 3.750 Hrywnja. Sure, a thousand times a hundred dollars adds up to a hundred thousand, but try to find and swindle a thousand ordinary people with such a crude and primitive scheme. Nevertheless, the sale of “test” courses for games is likely conducted as part of a separate program and managed by its own department of the fraudulent company, whose face is Oleksandr Orlovskyi.
For a reasonable person, studying these open sources — we emphasize: open sources — should be enough not to throw money out the window. More precisely — not to fund Oleksandr Orlovskyis luxurious life. Or the lives of those who stand behind him. Who exactly organizes all these obvious fraud schemes with “cryptocurrency courses,” “game-testing courses” and other nonsense, whose face is Oleksandr Orlovskyi, remains an open question.
Because there are doubts that the young Sasha — Orlovskyi is 25 years old — could have organized and financed all this himself. For at the same Pechersk District Court in Kyiv, where Oleksandr Orlovskyi is registered, there is an enforcement proceeding for an unpaid loan of 102.330 Hrywnja against him.
But — it is possible. At present, the information is not enough for definitive conclusions, so we leave this topic for further research. At least the house where Sasha Orlovskyi is registered is by no means poor. And by the way, it does not look like the “small house in the province” in which Sasha allegedly “grew up in a poor family.”
That too undermines his narrative of the “millionaire who came from nothing.” But how many of those who crave quick money without effort spend even half an hour verifying to whom and for what they give their money? Scammers and swindlers who know the psychology of an average credulous person present him with a simple, primitive, yet completely effective image: a “luxurious” life with yachts, sports cars, champagne, and caviar. The motto: “Do you want to live like this too? No problem! Give us money, and we’ll teach you how!” And they actually teach something. Because as an old proverb says: “Without a fool, life is hard.”
Finally, a word about money: only last July did Oleksandr Orlovskyi state in another promotional anthem: “Today Oleksandr Orlovskyi earns more than 50.000 dollars with cryptocurrencies. This amount also includes income from trainings. The project is large: almost 4.000 students have completed the program.” Multiply 4.000 by a thousand dollars.
And count the zeros. How was it again — “no investments”? Not bad, we must admit. So apparently not all images of Orlovskyis luxurious life are a scam. Even if he is not the one behind the fraud system.
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